COURTESY OF THE TADEO FAMILY
Jeremy Wolfe, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq last week, will be buried with full military honors Wednesday in Wisconsin. Christine Tadeo Wolfe shared a smile with her husband when she was commissioned in December 2001.
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Tributes continue to pour in for a Wisconsin native killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq last week and who had been commissioned into the Army through the University of Hawaii ROTC program.
Second Lt. Jeremy Wolfe, 27, is expected to be buried with full military honors Wednesday at St. John's Cemetery in the township of Dunn, six miles from Menomonie, Wis., where he was raised.
A spokeswoman at Olson Funeral Home in Menomonie said Wolfe's funeral services will be held there, pending the arrival of his body from Fort Campbell, where services were held yesterday for members of 101st Airborne Division killed in Saturday's Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Mosul.
His widow, 1st Lt. Christine Tadeo Wolfe, told the Star-Bulletin by phone that "it was a very beautiful ceremony honoring all of the soldiers. There were so many people here." Her husband was a member of the Fort Campbell-based 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to attend Wednesday's services as well as people from Hawaii, including Imelda and Reynaldo Tadeo -- his mother-in-law and father-in-law. The Tadeo family said expressions of condolences can be sent to Olson Funeral Home, 615 Wilson Ave., Menomonie, WI 54751.
Imelda Tadeo remembers a softer side of the soldier-warrior. "We loved Jeremy very much. He adapted to our Filipino traditions at home very easily, and he never complain at home each time I cooked bagoong ... and loved eating bibingka (Filipino mochi)."
Last Saturday, Wolfe became the fifth person with Hawaii ties to die in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He was piloting one of the two Black Hawk helicopters that collided over Mosul, killing himself and 16 other 101st Airborne Division soldiers. Sgt. 1st Class Kelly Bolor, a former Lahaina resident, was a passenger in one of the Black Hawks. Bolor will be buried in Wailuku next Saturday after funeral services in Lahaina.
"He was such a very nice boy," Tadeo said. "He was very friendly. He was not very critical, and willing to try anything."
The couple had planned to hold a larger wedding ceremony here in February since they only had time for a civil ceremony when they first got married and then had to rush off to Army schools, Tadeo said.
First Lt. Christine Wolfe had just returned from a year's tour in South Korea and was supposed to report for "a combat tour," her mother said yesterday. "Now I don't know what is going to happen."
"They were such an adventuresome couple," Tadeo said. "They were both certified divers. They loved doing so many different things."
She now worries about her daughter's future. "I never knew what made her go into the Army. Kids today are like that. ... You never really do think about things like this. ... I worry about her."
