Funeral services for a Milam county soldier who was killed in Afghanistan will be held on Saturday.

Master Sergeant Charles Price, III of Cameron was killed Friday, August 12th in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. The Pentagon reports that insurgents attacked Price's unit with a homemade bomb. Price graduated from Cameron High in 1989, and joined the Army after graduation.

Price's body will return home to Cameron on Friday morning around nine o'clock. Those wishing to pay their respects are asked to line the streets near Yoe High School, as the fallen soldier's body enters the city.

For 22 years, Master Sgt. Price served his country and earned many honors, including the Bronze Star and the Meritorious Service Medals.

Funeral services for Price will be held August 27th at the First Baptist Church in Cameron. He is survived by his wife and seven children. He was 40 years old.

Master Sgt. Price was stationed Fort Carson, Colorado and becomes the 324th soldier from there killed overseas since troops began deploying to war from the post in 2003. Of those soldiers, 67 have died while serving in Afghanistan.

Price is not the only Cameron native to die in Afghanistan. Army 2nd Lieutenant Darryn D. Andrews, a 1994 graduate of Cameron High School died in 2009, of wounds he received when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with a homemade bomb and a rocket-propelled grenade.