Patriot Guard Riders

Honor Mission

Kenneth George Althaus III, Veteran

USMC – Vietnam
Elizabeth City, North Carolina – 10-24-19 MULTI-STATE

Patriots, it is time we come together and stand as Family for one that stood for us.  Cpl Kenneth George Althaus III, USMC, Vietnam, passed on from this earth alone and without family.  We have been asked to stand as his family and escort him to his final resting place.  Ken served with Marine Recon in Vietnam in 1971-72.  He came from a long distinguished family of Military leaders, His father was a full Colonel in WWII and his Grandfather was a General in WWII and also served in WWI.  Cpl Althaus worked in Respiratory Care at a local hospital prior to developing agent orange related cancer which destroyed the lifestyle he had enjoyed and made him destitute.  The Camden County DSS has granted the NCPGR permission to escort him to the Veteran’s Cemetery and have him laid to rest with his Brothers in Arms.

Twiford Funeral Home

405 E Church St
Elizabeth City, North Carolina 27909

Roy “Highwinder” Hankinson

757-553-2470

We will gather and conduct a dignified transfer of his ashes from the Funeral Home to the NCPGR. We will then mount up and escort him to the Albert G Horton Jr. Veteran’s Cemetery.  En-route we will transfer his cremains to the VAPGR with a dignified transfer.  At the cemetery we will set the flag-line and render the appropriate Honors, standing tall, silent and with dignity, showing respect with Honor for his service to our country.

Eureka Baptist Church

1601 NC-32
Corapeake, North Carolina 27926

Rick “Cheng” Leighton

757-567-2711

We will stage and wait the arrival of the escort from Elizabeth City. Upon arrival we will conduct a dignified transfer of Cpl. Althaus to the VA PGR and go KSU, proceeding to the Albert G. Horton Jr. Veterans Cemetery.