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Family, friends mourn death of firefighter


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 had served with Bowie County fire departments for more than 20 years.
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 casket, but she was too short.

A Pleasant Grove firefighter lifted her up to give her a view before the fire truck led the funeral procession from First Baptist Church, Moores Lane, to Courtland Cemetery in Queen City, Texas.

Treadway, 40, of Leary, died Sunday of complicatio...
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