Superintendent Colonel William Crotty
Date: Monday May 10, 2021
Location:
Emmanuel Wesleyan Church
217 Beaglin Park Drive
Salisbury, MD 21804.
Media Parking/Staging: Media parking and staging area will be to the north side of the parking lot near Beaglin Park Drive to the west of Dallas Drive (see attached Google map). Entrance for media vans/trucks/cars into the parking lot will be off Dallas Drive. Please identify yourself to the Law Enforcement personnel and you will be directed to the designated area. The family has requested that no media cameras or recording devices be permitted inside the church.
Timeline: Corporal Heacook will be escorted from Short Funeral Home in Delmar, Delaware to Emmanuel Wesleyan Church starting at 8:45 a.m. and will travel the following route where there will be temporary road closures:
Public viewing of Corporal Keith Heacook will be from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. Attendees will be asked to adhere to Covid-19 protocols.
Service will begin around 12:20 p.m. and is expected to last approximately one hour. The Emmanuel Wesleyan Church will provide a Livestream of the service accessible by visiting YouTube, www.youtube.com/ewc. Once the Livestream begins, it will also be available on Cpl. Heacook’s tribute page, which can be accessed at, https://www.shortfh.com/obituaries/Cpl-Keith-Heacook/#!/PhotosVideos. Viewing of the service will also be broadcast on a digital billboard vehicle outside the church.
Road Closures:
There will be Electronic Sign Boards on Old Ocean City Road and Ocean Gateway alerting the general public of the funeral. Troopers, Deputies, and Police Officers will be at various intersections directing traffic into the venue.
At the conclusion of the funeral, there will be an escort of Corporal Heacook back to Short Funeral Home in Delmar, DE.
The interment will be private.
Presented by Public Information Officer, Master Corporal Gary Fournier
Released: 050721 0900
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