Editor's note: If the procession plans change or are adjusted due to the weather, we will update this post.

The staffs and students of West Aurora High School and Jefferson Middle School will stand outside at about 10:30 a.m. Friday when the body of West alumnus SPC Christopher Alexander Patterson is driven past the schools. 

Patterson, age 20, passed away Friday, January 6, 2012 while proudly serving his country in the Kandahar Province in Afghanistan.
 
The Patriot Guard Riders will accompany the procession, which is scheduled to leave the funeral home in Batavia at 10 a.m. It will come down Randall, turn east on Plum, turn south on Commonwealth and then pull through the high school’s main drive along Galena.
 
The high school is at 1201 W. New York St., Aurora. Jefferson is at 1151 Plum St., Aurora, just north of the high school.

The route will pass by the high school auditorium on Commonwealth, because that is where Patterson spent so much of his time during high school. For the occasion, the North Aurora Fire Department will hang an American flag from two ladder trucks at the high school.

Visitation for Spc. Christopher Patterson will be held on Fri., Jan. 20 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 950 Hart Road, Batavia. The visitation will be held in the church’s sanctuary from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Patterson’s memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Sat., Jan. 21, in the church’s Family Life Center.

BATV will have a live stream webcast of the service and celebration of song for Patterson, who was an avid music student. Go to batv.us at 11 a.m. on Saturday and watch the entire service from any Internet connection.

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To read Patterson's full obituary, click here.

To read a grade-school teacher’s remembrances of Patterson, click here.

To read our initial report on Patterson, click here.