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Davis III, Edward G., 31
Sergeant Hometown:Antioch, Ill
In a family full of men named Eddie, Marine Sgt.
Edward Davis III was still one of a kind, his sister
said. "He was a funny, funny guy," Rachael Rodriguez
of Winthrop Harbor said Wednesday about her brother,
a former Antioch resident who attended Warren
Township High School in Gurnee in the early 1990s
and is one of six family members named Edward.
"Eddie could always make people laugh. He had a
great sense of
humor and the biggest dimples," she said. "And he
just loved his family and his kids so much."
Sgt. Edward Davis III
Illinois Marine killed
while serving in Iraq
Associated Press
(reprinted from MercuryNews.com,
May 5, 2006)
 ANTIOCH,
Ill.
- A
31-year-old U.S. Marine from northern Illinois was
killed in Iraq when the Humvee he was riding in was
struck by a bomb. Sgt. Edward G. Davis III of
Antioch was one of three soldiers killed in the
attack on Friday in Iraq's Al Anbar province,
according to the Defense Department. Davis was
assigned to 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st
Marine Division, which is stationed at Camp
Pendleton, Calif.
"He
was a funny, funny guy," said his sister, Rachael
Rodriguez of Winthrop Harbor. "Eddie could always
make people laugh."
He
joined the Marines in 1999 and relatives say he
volunteered for duty in Iraq earlier this year.
About a week before he died, he ran into a
24-year-old cousin in Iraq who is also a Marine,
Rodriguez said. "They got a
chance to talk for about an hour and a half," she
said. "I think myself, personally, I had a false
sense of security
(about Davis) because my cousin was on his second
trip to Iraq. "I guess I thought because he had
been safe there, it probably wasn't as bad as they
were saying. I thought they were helping more than
fighting," she said. Rodriguez said her family is
trying to come to terms with Davis' death. "The
next couple days are going to be really hard," she
said Wednesday. "But I brought copies of all my
pictures of Eddie, and we're all telling stories.
We're trying to remember the good times and not
focus on the tragedy."
Davis
attended Warren Township High School in Gurnee. He
is the third alum of the school to die in Iraq since
the war began.
Other survivors include a wife and three children.
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