Flags to be flown half-staff Wednesday in honor of killed Niskayuna soldier

ALBANY -- Governor David Paterson has ordered flags on government buildings be flown at half-staff Wednesday in honor of the local soldier who died in Afghanistan last week.

Private First Class Jeremiah Monroe, 31, of Niskayuna was killed in action on September 17th in Kandahar, according to the US Department of Defense. 

Monroe, originally from Brant Lake, was assigned to the 7th Engineer Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum.

He died of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device in Operation Enduring Freedom.

Survivors include his wife Jamie Lynn Monroe of Warrensburg; mother Dolores "Peanut" Monroe of Brant Lake; daughter Delilah Rose Monroe of Brant Lake; brother SSG Robert D. Monroe, Jr., of Camp Ederly, Italy.

Full services with full military honors will be at 10 a.m. this Saturday at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Chestertown. Internment will be at the Underwood Cemetery in Adirondack.

Memorials in Jeremiah's name may be made to Wounded Warriors Project at P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675.