Residents lined the streets as a processional made its way through Cambridge Thursday afternoon, March 5, carrying the remains of Sgt. Schuyler Brent Patch, 25, of Galva. Assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry, based in Kewanee, he was killed in action Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, by an improvised explosive device. Two other coalition members and an Afghan civilian working with the coalition also were killed. They were on a joint patrol with Afghan National Security Forces. Patch, a 2002 graduate of Wethersfield High School, was in his third deployment.
