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7:59 pm
Mon February 4, 2013

Plainwell soldier returned home for burial

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Mark Schoonhoven is a Plainwell native who lived in the area until he enlisted six year ago.
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  • | Via: Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO, MI - Silence hung in the air inside the hangar. As the large door crawled open, a rush of cold air entered. Every face turned to the airplane that carried the body of the father, son and fallen soldier. On Wednesday, Staff Sgt. Mark Schoonhoven, who on Jan.
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3:46 pm
Mon February 4, 2013

Flags to fly at half-staff for Plainwell soldier

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Veterans memorial at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
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Flags will be flown at half-staff Thursday in memory of a southwest Michigan soldier who died after being wounded in Afghanistan. Governor Rick Snyder issued the order Monday for Sergeant Mark Schoonhoven of Plainwell. He died in January at an Army hospital in Texas after his unit was attacked by a bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul in last December. He was part of a transportation company based at Fort Carson, Colorado. A funeral service for Schoonhoven will be held Thursday morning in Otsego.

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6:14 am
Mon January 28, 2013

Plainwell soldier remembered as determined, dedicated

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Staff Sergeant Mark Schoonhoven died January 20th from injuries sustained in December in Afghanistan
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  • | Via: Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO, MI - Staff Sgt. Mark Schoonhoven was determined. At 32, the Plainwell native enlisted in the U.S. Army. During basic training, he ranked in physical training exercises, beating out fellow recruits 10 years his junior. "When he went in, he said he was going to give it his all," his father Harry Schoonhoven said Saturday at the family's home north of Parchment.
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