Confirmed Mission: The Patriot Guard Riders have been invited to participate in the funeral and interment services for Mr. Rusty Kohler, Jr. Mr. Kohler served in the US Army from 1968 to 1973, and was an MP in Vietnam. He left the military as a Sergeant.
He was an Austin Police Department officer from 1972 to 1996. After retiring from the APD he joined the Bastrop Sheriffs office as a deputy and served from 1997 to 2009.
More about his life can be read here when published: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/pflugerville-tx/edward-kohler-jr-8822916
Date/Time: Friday, 23 August 2019. Funeral service scheduled for 10 am.
Location: Cook-Walden Capital Parks Funeral Home, 14501 North IH-35, Pflugerville, TX 78660. We will stage at the funeral home.
Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/8h7REFAmhJo
Timeline:
9:00 – 9:25 am – Staging
9:25 am – Briefing
9:30 am – Flagline
Wx: Hi 97 deg, partly cloudy
Notes: Bring a bottle of water for yourself and one for a friend. This is a flag line only mission. Once the funeral service begins we will relocate to the adjacent gravesite and prepare to stand a second flag line for the interment service.
Ride Captain: Warren Longacre, longacre@austin.rr.com, (512) 755-4163
Flag Wrangler: Don Ferguson
Please attend to honor this soldier and law officer's long service to our community and nation.