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June 14, 2007 12:00 AM
Timmy J. Millsap

1st Sgt. Timmy Millsap , 70th Engineers,

1st Armored,

April 25, 2005

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One day while shopping with her mother and brother, Sherry Henry began seeing quarters roll around on the store's floor. She ran to pick them up.

"I thought I was finding money all over the place," she recalled. Her unexpected windfall had a source and a laugh: Her brother, Timmy J. Millsap , was hiding behind the clothes racks and playing a trick.

Millsap , 39, of Wichita, died April 25, 2005, when a bomb hit his convoy in Baghdad. He was assigned to Fort Riley.

"He was a small guy," standing about 5-foot-6, said his wife Alyne, "but his personality was larger than life."

He graduated from high school in 1984 and attended Kansas Newman College for a semester before enlisting in the Army. He served in Germany, Colorado, Missouri, Hawaii, Bosnia and Kuwait.

In high school, he wrestled and played baseball, track and football, but soccer was his favorite.

"He was probably, in some respects, one of my most productive players that I ever coached," said Klaus Kollmai, Millsap 's former soccer coach. "Unless he gave 100 percent, he was just never satisfied."

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