US MARINE LANCE CORPORAL SCOTT HARPER PROCESSIONAL ROUTE ANNOUNCED

U. S. Marine Lance Corporal Scott Daniel Harper will be brought home by his beloved Marine Corps on Thursday, October 20^th.

Lance Corporal Harper, accompanied by members of the Marine Corps and his family, will land at Fulton County Airport/Charlie Brown Field Thursday morning, October 20^th. A Marine Corps Honor Guard will escort Lance Corporal Harper off the plane. A procession will leave the airport at 11:30 a.m. to bring him to Douglas County.

The processional route will be as follows. Times are estimated and the motorcade could be 10 minutes on either side of the stated time based on traffic flow, motorcade speed and other factors.

11:30 AM	Processional/Motorcade Leaves Fulton County Airport
11:32 AM	Fulton Industrial Boulevard/Mableton Parkway	heading northwest
11:42 AM	Mableton Parkway/Bankhead Highway	heading west
11:45 AM	Chattahoochee Tech, Bankhead Highway
11:48 AM	Downtown Austell Business District
11:51 AM	Thornton Road/Bankhead Highway
11:53 AM	Annette Winn Elementary School	where Scott started in the first grade
11:54 AM	Downtown Lithia Springs
11:56 AM	AMVETS Post 118	Veterans' salute
12:00 PM	GreyStone Power Corporation
12:05 PM	Fairburn Road/Bankhead Highway	turn south one block, then west on Church Street
12:06 PM	Downtown Douglasville Business District
12:15 PM	Processional/Motorcade Arrives at Whitley-Garner at Rosehaven Funeral Home	8640 Rose Avenue, Douglasville

The Public is invited and encouraged to salute the service of Lance Corporal Harper along the processional route.

Lance Corporal Harper will be accompanied by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department, the City of Douglasville Police Department, the Patriot Guard, the American Legion Riders, friends and organizations associated with the family.

Lance Corporal Harper’s family will receive friends at Whitley-Garner at Rosehaven Funeral Home on Friday, October 21^st, from 5 – 9 p.m., and on Saturday, October 22^nd, from 1 – 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, October 23^rd, at 3 p.m. at the Ephesus Baptist Church, 8445 Ephesus Church Road, Villa Rica, Georgia. Interment will follow at the Ephesus Baptist Church Cemetery will full military honors.