A hearse carrying soldier

Braydyn McIlroy travels through a makeshift archway at

the Bannerville Fire Co. Tuesday night in a military escort that led from Philadelphia International Airport and proceeded to the funeral home in Danville, making a side trip through McIlroy’s homestead in Bannerville.

McIlroy, 22, of Sunbury, died Dec. 20 in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 20 in Ouachita

Parish, La., while traveling home for Christmas, according to

Louisiana State Police.