Sgt. Jerrell Stennett, 29, Served With U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Group

The following obituary was submitted by Roswell Funeral Home:

Sgt. Jerrell D. Stennett, 29, of Alpharetta, passed away Nov. 16, 2014. Last Honor’s Services will be held 9 a.m. Friday, November 28, 2014 in the chapel of Roswell Funeral Home.

Interment will follow, with full military honors, in Georgia National Cemetery in Canton.

Sgt. Stennett was a 2003 graduate of Milton High School; and attended Southern Union and the University of West Georgia.

He was an airborne sergeant with the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Group. Sgt. Stennett was an outdoors man: avid bow hunter and fly fisherman; loved the Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees and his diesel truck; not to mention his dogs, Havok and Colt, and cats: Snaggles, Archer, and Mitch.

Survivors include his wife, Katherine Stennett; father, Aston Stennett; and mother, Dr. Varieta Benjamin; sister, Tanya Stennett; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

The family received friends on Wednesday afternoon from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Roswell Funeral Home.

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