Spc Brandon Scott Mullins

SPC Brandon Scott Mullins, 21, of Owensboro, Kentucky died in service to his country in Kandahar province in southeast Afghanistan on August 25, 2011. He graduated from Apollo High School in 2008, participated in hockey and youth football and was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. PFC Mullins joined the Army in 2010 and had been assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Rev. Thomas C. Mullins and Mary Mullins and his maternal grandparents, Gerald Heald and Sara Davis Heald.

Survivors include his parents, Thomas and Catherine Mullins of Owensboro; a brother, PFC Shaun Erik Mullins and his wife Ashley of Fort Bragg, NC; a sister, Bethany Rose Mullins of Owensboro; uncles, Bob Mullins of Lexington, David Mullins and his wife Kathy of Irvine, CA and James Heald of Thailand; aunt, Elizabeth Wright of Ashland, KY; and cousins, Stephanie Mullins Sweatt, Brian Mullins, Tori Mullins, Alexis Mullins, Madison Mullins, Jake Wright, and Daniel Berry.

Services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 11 at Good Shepherd Church where visitation will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Burial will be in Owensboro Memorial Gardens. Glenn Funeral Home and Crematory will be in charge of the arrangements.

The reception ceremony for PFC Mullins at Mid America Jet will be September 7 with times to be announced later.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to Eagles Summit Ranch - where wounded warriors find their way home - c/o Roever and Associates, P.O. Box 136-130, Fort Worth, TX 73136. www.daveroever.org

Online condolences may be left for the Mullins Family at www.glennfuneralhome.com.