Utah soldier dies in Germany

FORT CARSON, Colo. — A soldier from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment has died of a brain aneurysm, his family said.

Sgt. Timothy R. Boyce, 29, of North Salt Lake, Utah, died Friday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, the military said.

His mother, Tammy Boyce of Farmington, Utah, said her son was serving in Iraq and suffered an aneurysm on Wednesday. He was flown to Landstuhl and where he was kept on life support until Friday, when his brother Brad, a soldier serving in Kuwait, could be with him.

Tammy Boyce told The Gazette of Colorado Springs her son was a devoted family man and a devout Mormon.

Boyce and his wife, Sharon, have a 4-year-old son, Ammon, and a daughter, Gracelynn, born in September.

He had returned to their Utah home on leave shortly after Gracelynn's birth, but his wife spent some of that time hospitalized for blood clots in her lungs, Tammy Boyce said.

"He is such a good father. He took care of Gracie by himself. He just loved her," she said.

Boyce said her son, who worked on computer systems on Bradley Fighting Vehicles, was due home in about two months and expected to be discharged about three months after that. He planned to settle in Utah and go to college.

Boyce was assigned to the 3rd Armored Cavalry's Maintenance Troop, Support Squadron.