Daily News | Trooper Martin Mack III, killed in I-95 crash, remembered at funeral as loving husband and father
Following in the footsteps of his father, a member of the United States Marine Corps, he joined the National Guard. Following a lifelong dream, he became a Pennsylvania State Trooper, serving Philadelphia and its surrounding counties in Troop K.Late Thursday morning, Stephanie Mack, his wife, stood at the altar at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, looking out at pews filled with Mack’s fellow troopers and closest friends.
Thousands of mourners — Mack’s family and friends, fellow law enforcement, military personnel, and grateful civilians — gathered Thursday morning under a grey sky to pay their final respects. Cadres of police officers from across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — clad in full regalia — joined the Pennsylvania State Troopers marching solemnly into the church, waves of grey with the Pennsylvania state emblem on their shoulders.
“It was supposed to be the ‘I love you’ you tell your friends,” she wistfully recalled. “But it wasn’t. I meant it.”opposites attracted, said Delaware State Police Cpl. Paul LaPlaca, Mack’s best friend for 15 years. Mack was a man of few words. Stephanie was anything but.
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