Area woman killed in Iraq
Father confirms his daughter is third casualty in past three months
there has been no confirmation from the Department of Defense
Angela Fail
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
A former Pensacola resident died in Iraq on Friday, marking the war's third
local casualty since October.
Army soldier Katherine P. Singleton is the daughter of Doryce Blake and
Maryon Singleton, who resides in Myrtle Grove.
Singleton on Friday night confirmed his daughter's death but declined
further comment.
Details surrounding her death were not available late Friday.
According to Pensacola News Journal archives, Katherine Singleton enlisted
in the Army's Delayed Entry Program in 2001.
Her death marks the third service member in the two-county area to be killed
in Iraq in as many months.
The fatality comes just more than a month after the death of Staff Sgt.
Daniel J. Clay.
Clay, 27, a native of Pensacola, was one of 10 Marines killed in action in
December by a roadside bomb near Fallujah, Iraq.
The Washington High School graduate was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th
Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in Twentynine Palms, Calif.
The ambush that killed Clay came less than two months after the Oct. 23
fatal shooting of Marine Cpl. Jonathan "J.R." Spears, 21, of Molino. Spears
was the 2,000th U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, the first from the Pensacola
area.
Spears grew up in Molino, played four years on the Tate High School football
team and graduated in 2002.