UPDATED: Service for Marine Michael Ronner Planned for Next Week

UPDATED: 7:20 P.M.:

The following information was forwarded to Sudbury Patch by Patty Houpt, founder of the Sudbury Military Support Network:

Michael's body will be coming home from CA between Saturday and Monday. Service next week at Sudbury United Methodist Church. Date to be determined. We will be looking for food donations for the collation in the church hall following the service. It will be a military funeral, and burial will be in Town Center.

Jeff Ronner has asked the donations in Michael's memory be sent to either:

Sudbury Military Support Network
PO Box 544
Sudbury, MA 01776

or to
Wounded Warrior Project
www.woundedwarriorproject.org

Below is the original story:

The family of Lance Cpl. Michael J. Ronner, 23, of Sudbury, who was found dead on base at Camp Pendleton Monday morning, plans to meet with the Marines some time today.

According to Patty Houpt, founder of the Sudbury Military Support Network and a Ronner family friend, funeral plans have not been made, although a funeral is likely to happen at .

"I knew (Michael) when he was a little kid," Houpt told Sudbury Patch. "His parents have been bursting with pride over his accomplishments."

Ronner enlisted in the Marine Corps Jan. 11, 2010 and was assigned to 9th Communication Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif., according to a release from the Camp Pendleton Provost Marshal's Office.

His awards include the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

Houpt said Ronner was scheduled to be deployed this summer. It would have been his first deployment.

Ronner's mother, Linda, who now lives in Medford, is a former administrator at .

His father, Jeff, still lives in Sudbury.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents are treating the death as a suicide, the North County Times reports. Eleven of the 32 reported Marine Corps suicides last year were on Camp Pendleton, the report adds.