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Guthrie bomb victim was U.S. 'at our best'
State Department worker helped rebuild.

 
By Ann DeFrange | Modified: July 7, 2008 at 11:27 am | Published: July 3, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

EDMOND — Steven L. Farley answered a call to bring a democratic government to Iraq because he loved Iraq, but mostly because he loved America.

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A naval honor guard stands beside Capt. Steven Farley's casket Wednesday at Henderson Hills Baptist Church. About 500 people attended the funeral. Farley was killed June 24 in Baghdad. BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN


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At his funeral Wednesday at Henderson Hills Baptist Church, Farley was described as a good man, a decent man, "an example of America at our best.”

He died June 24, at age 57, in a bombing in Baghdad. He was there working with the U.S. State Department to help reconstruct the government of that war-torn city.

Though he was in Iraq as a civilian, the funeral had a distinctly military theme. Farley came from a multigenerational service family; he spent 34 years in the Army and Navy, and was serving as a captain in the Navy Reserve at the time of his death. He had answered three recalls to active duty since Sept. 11, 2001.

He had a large collection of medals, awards and commendations most of his friends didn't know about until they read his obituary. He was out of his element in Guthrie in the family's cleaning business, said his friend and pastor, Ron Jenkins, and returned to the war zone to instill the American values he cherished.

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