‘Joey was my best friend:’ Memorial service honors young Delaware solider killed during training – 47abc

GEORGETOWN, Del. – Pals, household, and family members gathered Monday night to honor the lifetime of a 19-year-old fallen Delaware solider who was killed throughout a coaching train final month.

In response to police, Joseph A. Marquez was concerned in a single automobile incident and died immediately throughout a coaching train in April at Yakima Coaching Middle in Washington State.

Service was within the household’s blood as he adopted in his grandfather’s footsteps and enlisted within the Military. Marquez was a member of 2-2 Stryker Brigade Fight Workforce, seventh Infantry Division, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. With a rank of Personal First Class, his duties included working as a fight motor operator.

A Dover native and 2020 graduate of Sussex Tech Excessive College, Joey was additionally obsessed with sports activities. But, his mom Kristen Giordano tells 47ABC  it was who he was off the sector that mattered most.  “He was a mommas boy, he was a terrific brother to his sister. He was a terrific good friend and teammate. On the providers, all people who stood up mentioned ‘Joey was my finest good friend.’ He was simply type of that man to everybody,” Giordano mentioned.

Former coaches, his youth pastors,  and extra stuffed seats Monday night at a memorial held at Sports activities on the Seashore in Georgetown.  It was a spot that was an enormous a part of Joey’s life as a child.

Many spoke of how a lot of a decent and courageous younger man he was. It’s these phrases his mom tells us will assist her smile via the ache. “At present for me simply is the chance for everyone that cherished Joey simply to face up and rejoice him a bit and for me to see the little items that he gave all people,” Giordano mentioned. “Everyone remembering his dimples, his smile, his chuckle. Simply the love that he had that was proven out of him and simply to see it keep on via my household and his associates.”

In honor of his legacy, one former coach is establishing a scholarship in his title persevering with his legacy for future athletes to come back.

As for the wreck that claimed Personal First Class Marquez’s life, it stays underneath investigation.