Perry Hall Soldier To Receive Memorial Day Recognition

LUTHERVILLE-TIMONIUM, MD — Every year a Memorial Day ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens recognizes military members who made the ultimate sacrifice. During the 2018 remembrance, a man from Perry Hall who died in the past year will be honored.

Sgt. Eric M. Houck died on June 10, 2017, while serving during Operation Freedom's Sentinel, in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. He was one of three soldiers killed that day in an attack, according to defense officials.

He was 25 years old.

Houck was a graduate of Perry Hall High School.

He joined the Army in May 2013 and was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in March 2016, defense officials said. He leaves behind a wife and two young children.

His wife Samantha Houck said the death of her husband, her high school sweetheart at Perry Hall, was "devastating," leaving her "lost but mostly proud," according to The Tennesseean.

Growing up, they lived off Manorfield Road and attended Joppa View, Perry Hall Middle and Perry Hall High School, where he graduated in 2009, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Houck is one of six Maryland soldiers who died in the line of duty in the past 14 months who will be remembered in the Circle of the Immortals at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. The cemetery's former owners began the annual ceremony because they thought that the public was losing sight of the meaning of Memorial Day

The Memorial Day ceremony will be at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 28, at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Circle of the Immortals, 200 East Padonia Road, Timonium, MD 21093.

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Photo of Sgt. Eric Houck courtesy of the 101st Airborne Division.