Funeral arrangements have been set for the Adairsville, Ga., Marine killed in Afghanistan last week, according to R. Dudley Barton and Son Funeral Home.
Visitation for Lance Cpl. Charles Seth Sharp, 20, will be at Northpointe Church, 30 Orchard Road in Adairsville, on Friday from 5 to 9 p.m.
Lance Cpl. Sharp's memorial service is set to begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at Northpointe, to be followed by a burial at East View Cemetery on Old Highway 41, the funeral home confirmed.
Lance Cpl. Sharp joined the Marines at age 17 and already had completed a tour in Iraq. He arrived in Afghanistan for his second deployment less than two months ago with Company E of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C.
He was the first Marine in the special force involved in Operation Strike of the Sword to be killed, according to newspaper archives, and the third Northwest Georgia service member to die in Afghanistan in recent weeks.
On June 20, 1st. Sgt. John Blair, 38, of Calhoun, died in Mado Zayi, Afghanistan, when a grenade struck his vehicle. He was a Georgia Army National Guardsman assigned to the 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment out of Lawrenceville.
On June 4, Sgt. Jeffrey William Jordan, 21, of Cave Spring, who served with the Calhoun-based 108th Cavalry, was one of three soldiers from his Georgia National Guard unit killed in Afghanistan.
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