Daniel Swift Lathers, 39, USMC veteran, Kyle, TX 11 October 2026

[Gary Mayers]

Completed Mission: The Patriot Guard Riders have been invited to participate in the funeral and interment services for Daniel Swift Lathers. He served in the USMC with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment and completed multiple combat missions during the Iraqi War. He was medically retired from the Marine Corps.

More about his life can be read:  Daniel Lathers

Date/Time: Sunday, 11 October 2026. Funeral begins at 10 am

Location: Harrell Funeral Home, 1715 Kirby, Kyle, TX 78640.
Link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gHVUPc9K3J7knihPA

Timeline:                 
9:00 – 9:20 pm – Staging
9:20 pm – Briefing
9:30 pm – Flag line

Wx: Partly cloudy skies, high 88 deg.

Notes: After the start of the funeral we will strike the flag line and stand by for LEO escorted procession to the Cook Walden Capital Parks Cemetery in Pflugerville where we will form a second flag line for the interment service. Procession is expected to arrive at about 12:30. Stage at Cook Walden Funeral Home from 11:30 to 12:00 then relocate to grave site.
Location: Cook Walden Funeral Home 14501 N Interstate Hwy 35, Pflugerville, TX 78660.

Ride Captain: Gary Mayers, auspgrgm@aol.com (512) 797-6613
Ride Captain in training: Mike Jackson

Flag Wrangler Kyle: Michele Binkley
Flag Wrangler Pflugerville: Mark Wells

Please attend to honor this Marine’s brave service to our nation.

 

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[Gary Mayers]

A beautiful Sunday morning and ready to ride. Eight Austin Patriot Guard Riders made it to the Harrell Funeral Home in Kyle to Honor CPL Daniel Swift Lathers. At 9:30AM we formed a flag line and were surprised at how many family members and friends came by, shook our hands and thanked us for our service. At the start of the funeral service we broke the flag line to stand by for the procession.

When the service ended we stood by to honor CPL Lathers as they loaded him into the hearse.

Thanks to Michele Binkley for taking care of the Flags and providing water for the riders in Kyle.

At 12:15 Hays county Constable led the procession from Harrell Funeral Home in Kyle to the Cook Walden Capital Parks Cemetery in Pflugerville. Upon arriving flag wrangler Mark Wells was waiting with flags. We relocated to the Waters Edge where the grave side service was to be held.

Full military honors was performed by the Marine Corps with a rifle salute, playing of taps, and folding of the flag to be presented to the family.

At the end of the service we retreated and put up flags. I told all the riders a big thanks for coming and to be safe going home.

I want to recognize Mike Jackson for a great job on his first mission as a ride captain in training.

Thanks to Mark Wells for setting up all the flags at the cemetery.

We welcomed two first time riders Chris Sweet and Vince Myers.

RIP CPL Daniel Swift Lathers

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