Rockhold, Marlin T.

Marlin T. Rockhold

Hamilton, Ohio

Feather Location: Row H, #19

Marlin Rockhold was married to DaVonna Rockhold on March 2, 2002, two days before he joined the Army, and was the stepfather of her 8-year-old child. His wife said she last heard from her husband four days before he was killed, when he called to tell her he missed her and was expecting to come home soon.

“We just couldn’t believe it when they called to say he had been killed,” said his uncle, Kevin Henderson. “We had just received a letter from him the same day we got the news of his death, and he was excited about coming home soon.”

Rockhold was a 1998 graduate of Hamilton High School in Hamilton, about 25 miles north of Cincinnati.

— Associated Press

Carver: Don Stout

   Retired engineer from Halliburton, President of Mining

   Has been a wood carver since 2009

Wood: Walnut that was cut from a friend’s (Steve Basil) yard in Shawnee Hills OH