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Avon Lake mourns soldier killed in Iraq

Friday, October 3, 2008

A Northeast Ohio soldier was buried today in Avon Lake. Friends and teachers remember Captain Michael J. Medders as a young man equally at home on the playing field, the classroom and the choir.

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our thoughts and prayers go out to the Meddors family.your son sacrifice and your family sacrifice will forever be honered.


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