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YORBA LINDA — Family and friends of a 19-year-old Marine from Yorba Linda will pay their last respects Tuesday to the teen who was killed last month while serving in Afghanistan.
Santa Ana police will escort the body of Lance Cpl. Rick J. Centanni from a Fullerton funeral home to St. Martin De Porres Roman Catholic Faith Community at 19767 Yorba Linda Blvd. in Yorba Linda, for a 10 a.m. funeral Mass. Centanni's father, Sgt. Jon Centanni, serves with the Santa Ana Police Department's gang unit.
Centanni and Sgt. Major Robert J. Cottle, a 45-year-old LAPD veteran, were killed March 24 by the same roadside improvised explosive device while riding in an armored truck in southern Helmand Province.
Cottle also lived in Yorba Linda and both men served together in the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, based in Camp Pendleton. The two had grown close serving together as Cottle mentored Centanni.
Tuesday's service promises to be a full military and police salute to Centanni, said Mike Shanahan, who is handling the funeral arrangements.
Centanni's friends, some of whom are Marines or high school classmates, will serve as pallbearers, Shanahan said.
The Mass will include a video tribute to Centanni and last about 90 minutes, Shanahan said.
Hundreds of Santa Ana and Buena Park police officers are expected to lead the procession from the church to Riverside National Cemetery, Shanahan said, noting that Centanni's mother worked at the Buena Park Police Department as a civilian.
The funeral procession will pass major landmarks in Centanni's life, including Esperanza High School, where he played football.
The procession will head out of the church's parking lot south on Fairmont Boulevard, turn west on Orangethorpe Avenue, north on Kellogg Drive past Esperanza High School and then head back up Kellogg Drive to Yorba Linda Boulevard to pass the church again on its way to the Riverside (91) Freeway.
Los Angeles police will also participate because Cottle served alongside Centanni, who will be honored with a 21-gun salute and perhaps a flyover at the cemetery, Shanahan said.
"It should be quite a tribute to the young man's life,'' Shanahan said.
Centanni joined the Marines right out of high school and aspired to be a police officer like his father.
