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New York – The public funeral for U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Angel Rampersad will be held Friday morning in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rampersad, a 28-year-old from Ozone Park, Queens, was one of three U.S. military members killed in action<\/a> in the Middle East two weeks ago during an Iranian strike on a military base in Jordan.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul plan to attend the funeral service, which is expected to start at 9 a.m. at the Calvary Assembly of God Church in Ozone Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n The church service will be livestreamed on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n After the service concludes around 11 a.m., a procession will lead Rampersad and her loved ones to the Long Island National Cemetery in Suffolk County, where she will be laid to rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Rampersad’s funeral comes days after a crowded vigil<\/a> in her hometown, as the Ozone Park community and local officials came together to remember their hometown hero.<\/p>\n The Ozone Park Residents Block Association revealed a plan to petition to co-name the corner of 96th Street and 133rd Avenue in honor of Rampersad.<\/p>\n They are also asking permission to rename P.S. 63.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Rampersad was born in Trinidad, but lived in Queens for almost her entire life.<\/p>\n She enlisted in the Army about seven years ago, after finishing college.\u00a0<\/p>\n A representative for Rampersad’s family told FOX 5 NY they remain in deep mourning.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: This article includes information from the Ozone Park Residents Block Association and prior reporting by FOX 5 New York.<\/p>\n New York City<\/a>Ozone Park<\/a>Iran War<\/a>Queens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York – The public funeral for U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Angel Rampersad will be held Friday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[63309,9,24,12,56,63,29389,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-310606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-iran-war","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-ozone-park","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785498370_810_chance-of-lingering-showers-across-nyc-amid-high-humidity-3-e1784723192172.jpg\")
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