EXETER, Maine — The funeral for a local father of four who was killed Saturday in a car bombing in Afghanistan will be held here next week.
The funeral for 40-year-old Corey Dodge of Garland is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Exeter, according to Mike Crosby of Crosby & Neal Funeral Homes.
Dodge was working for Virginia-based DynCorp International, escorting high-ranking officials around war-torn Afghanistan. He served as a police adviser and personnel movement coordinator, according to the company. He had been on tours of duty with contractors in Afghanistan for nine years but planned to come home for good in October because of the increasing violence, his mother, Letha Dodge, said over the weekend.
Reuters reported the suicide attack outside a hospital on a residential street at rush hour killed 12, including Dodge and two other DynCorp contractors. Scores more civilians were injured. The attacker drove the car toward an armored pickup truck belonging to DynCorp.