Banks County Soldier's Body Expected Home By Midweek

The body of staff sergeant Shaun Whitehead is expected to arrive in Georgia by midweek, but so far funeral arrangements are incomplete, according to Chad Eubanks with Evans-Smith Funeral Home in Jefferson.

The Banks County solider is one of six killed last week in Iraq who were based at Fort Campbell, KY.

Whitehead, of Commerce, died April 24th when a bomb exploded while he was on foot patrol in a town south of Baghdad.

According to a Fort Campbell press release, Whitehead was an infantryman with the 101^st Airborne Division. He was assigned to A Co., 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Campbell, Ky. and had served in the Army since 2003.

Whitehead is survived by his wife, Brenda, and two children son Gabriel Whitehead and daughter, Jana Moore, all of Fort Campbell, Ky., and his mother, Rebecca Whitehead, of Maysville, according to Fort Campbell Public Affairs.

Sergeant Shaun Whitehead was 25.