Former Adjutant General laid to rest in South Boston - Feb. 21, 2013

Current and former members of the Virginia National Guard and senior state government officials joined family, friends and the community of South Boston Feb. 21, 2013, in paying final respects to retired Maj. Gen. Carroll Thackston as he was laid to rest at Oak Ridge Cemetery will full military honors. Thackston, the Adjutant General of Virginia from July 1994 to September 1998, passed away Feb. 17, 2013, at Lynchburg General Hospital at the age of 79. Former Gov. George Allen presented Thackston's widow with a Virginia state flag, and Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Long, Jr., the Adjutant General of Virginia, presented his widow and three sons with U. S. flags at the burial site. The Virginia National Guard's Petersburg-based Funeral Honors Team provided the color guard, flag-folding detail, firing detail and bugler, and air crews from the Sandston-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment conducted a fly over with UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.