Family, friends mourn death of firefighter

By: Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette

A caravan of family, friends and firefighters travel on Summerhill Road Wednesday ahead of a fire truck carrying the casket of Roy Gene Treadway Jr. to his final resting place at Courtyard Cemetery in Queen City, Texas. Treadway died Sunday of complications from diabetes and a heart condition. He ha...

Five-year-old Macy Treadway watched as firefighters carried her father’s flag-draped casket up a set of steel-grated ramps and lift it onto a Pleasant Grove Fire Department truck.

After the the remains of Roy Gene Treadway Jr. were secure, Macy walked up one of the ramps to look at the ca...

Published: 04/09/2009