Funeral Wednesday for fallen Marine

SPANISH FORK — Funeral services for Lance Cpl. Cesar F. Machado-Olmos will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Palmyra Stake Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 505 E. 900 North.

Machado-Olmos, 20, died in a non-combat vehicle accident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was the first Latino Marine from Utah to die in Iraq.

However, another Latino from Utah who was in the U.S. Army died Jan. 31. Cpl. Juan Carlos Cabral, 25, was killed when an improvised mine exploded near a convoy in which he was driving. Two other members of the 4th Infantry Division's 4th Forward Support Battalion also died in the explosion near Kirkuk, Iraq.

Neither Machado-Olmos nor Cabral were citizens, but both were seeking citizenship.