Maj. Michael Green

UPDATE: A ceremony is set for 10 a.m. April 3 to dedicate the Maj. Michael Green Memorial Highway, a stretch of U.S. 90 in Gautier. The dedication will be held at the Gautier Convention Center. 

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GAUTIER -- It has been a year this month since residents of Gautier and from across Jackson County braved freezing wind and rain to pay their last respects to fallen soldier Michael Green, a native of this city.

A 36-year-old Green Beret, the Army major died Jan. 7, 2008, in Afghanistan.  Green was killed when a roadside bomb, ironically, hit a taskforce on patrol to seek out bombs.  

Hundreds of people lined U.S. 90 as the funeral procession rolled from First Baptist Church that is across from Gautier Elementary School, where Green and his twin sister, Michelle, spent their early years.