OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A Marine from Nicoma Park was killed Wednesday in Iraq.

Lance Cpl Joseph L. Nice, 19, died because of enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq, the Department of Defense reported.

Nice was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., where he was based, would not give details about the enemy action. Capt. Chad Walton said two other Marines, including one from Nice's unit, were also killed Wednesday in Anbar province.

Nice enlisted in the Marine Corp June 10, 2003, the Marine Corps center reported.

He trained in San Diego before joining a Twentynine Palms-based battalion as an ammunition man.

Nice was deployed to Iraq in February and likely would have returned to the United States in September with his unit, Walton said.

Nice was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, for serving in the military while the country is at war; the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, for serving overseas; and the War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, for serving in the war on terrorism.

Nice is survived by his mother, Marilyn Nice of Prague, Okla., and father, Lloyd Nice, the Marine Corps reported.

MIDWEST CITY (AP) -- With a 21-gun salute and a melancholy performance of "Taps," Lance Cpl. Joseph L. Nice was honored Friday for his service and sacrifice as a Marine in Iraq.

Nice, 19, a fourth-generation veteran, was buried in Midwest City next to his great-grandfather. Nice was killed Aug. 4 by enemy fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He had been deployed to Iraq in February.

More than 100 people attended a funeral at the First Baptist Church in Choctaw.

Nice, who was born in Newark, Ohio, before moving to Oklahoma to live with his grandmother Mary Sneed in Nicoma Park, was a member of his high school soccer team and played the saxophone in the marching band at Choctaw High School.

His mother, Marilyn Nice, lives in Prague. Five siblings also live in Oklahoma.

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