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| | In Memoriam - Powers |
 | | When Powers was 12, the matriarch of his birth family, grandmother Anna Powers, reclaimed him and brought him back to Mansfield. |
 | | Soon enough, Powers was making the rounds, appearing at the Child Help Christmas party in his dress blues, meeting Ashley Simpson and the cast of "Seventh Heaven." After he was deployed to Iraq, Ashley and her sister, Jessica, sent over teddy bears and photos. |
 | | Powers went back to Iraq on a second tour with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division but, as his aunt, Jo Ann Randall, noted, "He wasn't as eager to return the second time. |
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