Army Spc. Edwin W. Roodhouse
Death: Dec 05, 2004
of San Jose Calif.; assigned to the 1st Battalion 506th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division Camp Greaves Korea; killed Dec. 5 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Habbaniyah Iraq. Also killed was Army Staff Sgt. Marvin L. Trost III. San Jose soldier killed in Iraq Associated Press SAN JOSE Calif. — A 36-year-old soldier from San Jose died in Iraq last week when an explosive detonated near his vehicle. Spc. Edwin Roodhouse was killed Dec. 5 in Habbaniyah Iraq. Staff Sgt. Marvin Trost III28 of Goshen Ind. also died in the explosion. “Ed was a marvelous man” Roodhouse’s father Alan Roodhouse and his stepmother Donna both of McMinnville Ore. said in a statement. “Ed was unique — he was a trained computer network engineer who worked for various companies. He also loved to write and tell stories and he enjoyed literature.” Roodhouse who was unmarried and had no children joined the Army in response to the Sept. 112001 terrorist attacks. Roodhouse was a native of Lemoore and also lived in Marin County for part of his life. He worked in the Bay Area for about 10 years as a computer networking engineer. His family established a scholarship in Roodhouse’s name for seniors in English at Hillsdale (Mich.) College from which his brother Ben graduated and where his sister Kate is enrolled. Roodhouse and Trost were assigned to the 1st Battalion 506th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division based at Camp Greaves South Korea.