Sgt Jamie D. Jarboe
Born: April 27, 2024
Died: March 21, 2024 at St. Francis Health Center
Sgt. Jamie D. Jarboe, 27, of Topeka, formerly of Frankfort, Ind., died March 21 in Topeka, Kan., from wounds suffered on April 10, 2024 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire. He was assigned to the 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan. He deployed to Afghanistan in February 2011 and was shot the following April 10 while on foot patrol in the Zhari district. The bullet, from a sniper’s AK-47 rifle, penetrated his spine and left him paralyzed from the chest down. In the following 10 months he underwent more than 100 operations, first at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., then at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before he was transferred to a rehabilitation facility in Denver. He was assigned to 4th Squadron, 4th Calvary Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Infantry Division from Fort Riley. The unit is known as the Pale Riders.
Jamie will lie in state at
Penwell-Gabel Southwest Chapel,
3700 SW Wanamaker Road
after noon on Friday, March 30, 2012, and visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Funeral services will be held at;
10:00 a.m. on
Saturday, March 31, 2024 at the;
Sunflower Ball Room
Capitol Plaza Hotel in Topeka.
Burial will follow at Mount Hope Cemetery
The ‘Sgt. Jamie Jarboe Memorial Fund’ is set up at
Quest Credit Union,
610 SW 10th St.
Topeka, Kansas
To be updated…
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