Contractor Killed in Iraq

Submitted by: susie dow on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 22:01

Louisville man is killed in Iraq
By Sheldon S. Shafer, May 4, 2008

Jim Lockard, a civil engineer from Louisville working for a contractor overseeing the rebuilding of Iraqi schools and hospitals, was killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, his wife [Maria] said. [...] The couple have two daughters, Danielle, 16, and Nicole, 13, "who were his life," his wife said.

Lockard, 46, worked for Louis Berger Group.