Yorktown High School 2021 graduate Russell Morehead and member of the U.S. Navy is now on the Nimitz aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East, according to his grandmother, Carolyn Morehead, pastor of the Yorktown Faith Christian Fellowship.
“He is very proud to be doing what he is,” his grandmother said. “We’ve been praying for him for a long time. We’ve been concerned for a long time, but we know he is safe.” A small group of military family members gathered at the Yorktown Vietnam Veterans Memorial to pray for the U.S. Military on March 21. The pastor was asked to lead the prayer, and her granddaughter Aubrey Morehead, who is the sister of Russell Morehead and will graduate from YHS this year, also attended as did both sets of his grandparents, parents and some of his siblings.
“Ask me to pray, and I’ll do it,” the pastor said. “I wasn’t involved in organizing the event.” Pastor Morehead said that she is unaware of any other DeWitt County natives now in the Middle East serving in the military. There are others who are in the military but not deployed in the Middle East — but that could change as the conflict becomes more consequential, she added.
