Indian Country

NEW MEXICO, Shiprock – Funeral services were held for KENNETH W. WESTBROOK, 41, on October 16, 2009, at the Farmington Civic Center, in Farmington, New Mexico. Interment followed at Shiprock. Kenneth passed away October 7, 2009, at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., of wounds suffered September 8, 2009, when insurgents attacked his unit in the Ganjgal Valley of Afghanistan.

Kenneth was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. Kenneth’s death is the second loss for the Westbrook family. His brother Marshall A. Westbrook was killed October 1, 2005, in Iraq. (Navajo Times, October 15, 2009)