Randy Rosenberg was killed Jan. 24 in Iraq.

BERLIN, N.H. (AP) – Two memorial services will be held this week to honor a Berlin native who was killed last month while serving in Iraq.

Randy Rosenberg, 23, a sergeant assigned to the Ninth Cavalry out of Fort Hood, Texas, was killed Jan. 24 when a suicide bomber blew up in front of the vehicle he was riding in Iraq.

A service for Rosenberg will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Goffstown, where his wife, Misty (Boucher) Rosenberg, is from.

“She wanted a chance to uphold and celebrate her husband’s life in her home parish,” said the Rev. William Exner, pastor of St. Matthew Episcopal Church in Goffstown.

A funeral Mass with military honors will be held in Berlin on Friday at 2 p.m. at the St. Anne Church of Good Shepherd Parish.

The community is on edge because it just deployed about 200 National Guard troops to Iraq, said the Rev. Richard Roberge, pastor of the church. Rosenberg’s death has saddened the city, he said.

“It makes people realize the realities of war, which are very devastating,” Roberge said.

Last year, a Nashua soldier died in Kuwait in September after being struck by a fork lift. Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert E. Rooney, 43, died at Shubai Point, Kuwait. He was assigned to the 379th Engineer Company, U.S. Army National Guard, based in Bourne, Mass.

Last February, Specialist William John Tracy, 27, a Manchester resident and member of the Italy-based 5-158th Aviation Regiment, was killed near Udairi, Kuwait. He was on an UH-60 helicopter that crashed during training, before the start of the war in Iraq.