Fort Bragg's Lt. Col. Tisdale Buried at Texas A&M's Field of Honor

Fort Bragg's Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, the victim of last week's shooting, was laid to rest with full military honors in College Station, Texas on Thursday. 

Buried in the Aggie Field of Honor at Tisdale's alma mater, Texas A&M University, the communities of Fort Bragg and A&M eulogized the 42-year-old career military officer. The ’93 Aggie graduate advised in the Corps’ Company D-2.

An American flag graced the top of Tisdale's open casket with George Strait’s The Cowboy Rides Away playing in the background.

Patriotic colored floral arrangements adorned both sides of his casket with a pair of brown cowboy boots next to them.

“Roy was known as a country boy and a real Texas cowboy,” Lt. Col Steven Ruth said in The Eagle news report, during funeral services at Central Baptist Church in College Station.

Tisdale served in the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets and had tours of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tisdale's mother Linda was expecting to see her son for the first time in three years on Thursday, but never imagined it would be at the funeral procession that wound through the town where students and supporters gathered waving American flags.

"He had just gotten back from Afghanistan in October of last year," said Linda Tinsdale to KBTX news. "All these deployments he had you kind of think there's most of a possibility of it happening then, but not here in the United states."

Tisdale left behind his two children, Roy Lane and Megan along with his wife, Kim.

Tisdale had met Kim at A&M, and he later proposed to her under the Century Tree according to The Eagle news report. The couple were married for 19 years.

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