HAMILTON — A funeral service will be held in Hamilton on Saturday for a Montana native who died of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident on a U.S. Air Force Base in New Mexico.
Staff Sgt. Jordan Lewis died May 12. He and another man were injured a day earlier when a small utility vehicle overturned during training on the Melrose Air Force Range, which is about 35 miles west of Clovis, New Mexico.
Base officials say the 30-year-old Lewis was a flight engineer for CV-22 Osprey aircraft with the 20th Special Operations Squadron.
The Ravalli Republic reports Lewis was born in Hamilton and graduated from Corvallis High School in 2003. He was deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to the Horn of Africa during Operation Enduring Freedom. Lewis is survived by his wife, their three children and his parents.