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Funeral arrangements for Firefighter Landon Cale Bodie
October 4, 2024
Detailed arrangements for Firefighter Bodie are below.
Firefighter Landon Cale Bodie – OBITUARY
Visitation
Location: Batesburg-Leesville Fine Arts Center, 600 Summerland Ave, Batesburg-Leesville, SC 29006
Date and time: Sunday, October 6, 2024 from 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Parking: Lower level of Batesburg-Leesville High School
- Those needing assistance to access Fine Arts Center from lower-level parking lot use elevator inside door next to exterior stairs
Funeral service
Location: Batesburg-Leesville Fine Arts Center, 600 Summerland Ave, Batesburg-Leesville, SC 29006
Date and time: Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 4 p.m.
Parking: Lower level of Batesburg-Leesville High School
- Those needing assistance to access Fine Arts Center from lower-level parking lot use elevator inside door next to exterior stairs
Fine Arts Center lower-level map and staging:
Fine Arts Center center- and upper-level map and staging:
Graveside
Location: Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery, 879 Beaulah Road, Leesville, SC 29070 immediately following service
Fire service procession order
From top of Fine Arts Center
- Primary Procession Vehicles: Grandma, Caisson, hearse, family vehicle, family POV, Batesburg-Leesville FD
- Circle FD POVs parked in lower parking lot spots closest to football field
- Primary vehicles will follow route down center of parking lot
- Circle FD POVs will fall in line behind Batesburg-Leesville FD as it passes by
- All other fire service vehicles will fall in line behind Circle FD POVs in following order:
- Saluda County FD
- Batesburg-Leesville FD
- Aiken Public Safety
- Lexington County Fire Service
- All other marked fire service & first responder agencies
Fire service/first responder route
- From Batesburg-Leesville Fine Arts Center turn right out of parking lot onto Summerland Hwy
- Turn left on Lodestar Rd which become West Creek Rd
- Turn right onto Beulah Road (Beulah Baptist Church)
- Lead BLFD lead apparatus pulls into first entrance & vires to right in front of church
- Caisson pulls into first entrance all other traffic held until caisson can pull down to end of hardtop at cemetery to turnaround to back down to platform
- Funeral vehicles and any remaining primary processional vehicles turn into first entrance and parking attendants will assist
- All non-primary processional fire service, other first responder apparatus & public will be directed to park on right shoulder of Beulah Rd
- Parking attendants will assist DO NOT BLOCK DRIVEWAYS or OPPOSITE SIDE OF ROAD (see map below, Beulah Baptist Church map)
Procession for general public
- Must exit the parking lot at one-way entrance to the right onto Summerland Ave
- Must fall in behind last marked fire/first responder apparatus
- Turn left on Lodestar Rd which become West Creek Rd
- Turn right onto Beulah Road (Beulah Baptist Church)
Beulah Baptist Church map: