Thursday, March 8, 2012

Conner Lowery funeral details

Corporal Conner Lowry is to arrive at Midway Airport at 8:00am Friday morning, where a short, private military service will be held for his family. The motorcade carrying Corporal Lowry’s body will travel from Midway south down Cicero Avenue to 103rd St - See below for travel route.

Students from Brother Rice HS and Mother McAuley HS will line Pulaski and 99th street holding American Flags in Conner’s honor. The motorcade will stop directly in front of Br. Rice, where an Honor Guard will play Taps, with the trumpet played by a Br. Rice student who is a close friend of Conner’s family.

UPDATE: Lowry’s body is to arrive at 8 a.m. Friday at Midway Airport.
A procession will follow, from Midway Airport
south on Cicero Avenue to 103rd Street,
east on 103rd Street to Pulaski Road, then
north past Brother Rice High School,
east on 99th Street past Mother McAuley High School,
south on Central Park Avenue past Queen of Martyrs School and then
east on 103rd Street toward St. John Fisher School and Church.

Students and staff at the schools will line the streets for Lowry’s procession home.
Community members are also invited to line the processiona route in a show of respect.
Organizers suggest people be present along the route with American flags by 8:45 a.m.

Cpl. Lowry will lie in state from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday at
St. John Fisher Church at 10234 S. Washtenaw Ave. in Chicago.

A funeral Mass will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the church.
Burial is at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Alsip.
**PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE WHO LIVES NEAR THE ROUTE**
Thanks to Detective Shaved for this posting.