UPDATE 7/23/10 @ 3 p.m.
COAL GROVE, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Sgt. Justin Allen was laid to rest in Coal Grove Tuesday afternoon.

The streets were full of family, friends, neighbors and proud supporters of the armed forces. Hundreds of American flags lined the neighborhoods that surrounded Dawson Bryant High School.

Services began at 11 a.m. at the high school and continued at Woodland Cemetery.

The Patriot Guard lead the procession as Sgt. Allen was taken to Woodland Cemetery.

Sgt. Allen has a sister, Jennifer Dickers, 45, and a brother, Brian Allen, 43, and was engaged to marry Kim Schwartz.

Sgt. Allen was on his fourth tour of duty and was scheduled to return from Afghanistan in October.

The funeral for Sgt. Justin Allen will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Dawson-Bryant High School.

Visitation is planned for Monday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the school.

Allen was on his fourth tour of duty when he was killed.

The DOD says Allen died July 18 in Zhari, Afghanistan,. They say he was shot by insurgents while conducting combat operations.

Allen, who was from Coal Grove, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment out of Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia.

Bill Murray had a chance to speak with Allen’s family and has more on a proud family's loss.

"Sadness, very sad. I don't show my emotions outwardly not like she does. I just have this tension or whatever it is building up in my chest. My heart's heavy but I try to be tough,” said Allen’s father.

For a proud father it’s not easy. Outside the Allen house in Coal Grove, Ohio, there is wreath that speaks volumes. The yellow ribbon that wraps the tree -- broken, the hope -- gone.

The Allen family is mourning the loss of their son Justin, the pictures in their home show not only a soldier but a son and a brother. Full of life. but this weekend Sgt. Justin Allen, an army ranger, was killed in Afghanistan.

“Every time he had a chance he'd call. He tried not to call every day because he knew if he called everyday, a day he didn't call that I'd be scared," said Bonnie Allen, Justin’s mother.

Sgt. Allen was on his fourth call of duty, in Afghanistan for the last two months.

“He always played Army as a little boy, he always liked being outside,” said Justin’s sister.

Justin was a late in life surprise -- 20 years younger than his two siblings.

“He turned out to be the light of our life,” said Justin’s mother. “It's pretty traumatic, I'm a grandmother and my doctor told me I was pregnant. I said, I can't be, I'm a grandma. He said, that doesn't matter, we had two babies in the house instead of one."

Bonnie has lost her baby her baby boy to the horrors of war, but the body language in the Allen’s living room shows there's strength, love, comfort and a sense of pride that a beloved son did not die in vain.

“In God's mind and God's way of doing things, he has fulfilled his purpose through what Justin did,” said Justin’s father.

Justin was 2005 graduate of Dawson Bryant High School. His goal was to go on to college. He was thinking about a career in Sport's Medicine and he was also planning to marry.

Justin and his fiancé, who's also in the military, had a wedding planned for November, 2010.

Justin was a 2005 graduate of Dawson Bryant High School. His dad, Roger, says one of the reasons they're in the house now is because it was so close to school.

"He was always the underdog." Mr. Allen says, "The house was close and Justin loved to play football.

Sgt. Allen was on his fourth tour of duty overseas when he was killed. Only three weeks shy of his birthday, he was supposed to be married in November of this year. He also planned to go to college to study sports medicine.

"He loved God, he loved his family, and he loved his country" says his mom, Bonnie Allen. "We're just so sad and yet so proud."

She referred to Justin, who was a late-in-life surprise for their family, as the "light of our life." He was 20 years younger than his two siblings.

Funeral arrangements for Sgt. Allen are still pending. He will be buried in Lawrence County, Ohio.