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In February 2009, less than two months into his tenure as Representative John Fleming's chief of staff, Fletcher was stricken with [[cancer]]. He underwent treatment in Ruston and Monroe as well as the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. A sarcoma in his back metastasized.<ref>T. Scott Boatright, "Fletcher dies at age 43," ''Ruston Daily Leader,'' [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana, October 1, 2009.</ref> He died at the age of forty-three at St. Francis Hospital in Monroe, with his grandmother at his side.<ref name=obit/>​

In February 2009, less than two months into his tenure as Representative John Fleming's chief of staff, Fletcher was stricken with [[cancer]]. He underwent treatment in Ruston and Monroe as well as the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. A sarcoma in his back metastasized.<ref>T. Scott Boatright, "Fletcher dies at age 43," ''Ruston Daily Leader,'' [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana, October 1, 2009.</ref> He died at the age of forty-three at St. Francis Hospital in Monroe, with his grandmother at his side.<ref name=obit/>​

Services were held on October 5, 2009, at the First Church of God in Oak Grove, with the Reverend Mark Foster, a [[Pentecostal]] pastor from West Monroe officiating, assisted by the Reverends Paul Ninemire, a Church of God minister from Oak Grove, and Dennis Anger, pastor of the Cypress Street Church of God in West Monroe. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers included former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, political consultant Roy Fletcher (no relation), newspaper publisher Sam Hanna, Jr., of ''The Ouachita Citizen'', and Judge [[Wendell Manning]]. Honorary pallbearers were U.S. Representatives John Fleming and Rodney Alexander and state Senators [[Mike Walsworth|Michael Arthur "Mike" Walsworth]] and Neil Riser, and Fletcher's Sigma Nu fraternity brothers.<ref name=obit/>​

Services were held on October 5, 2009, at the First Church of God in Oak Grove, with the Reverend Mark Foster, a [[Pentecostal]] pastor from West Monroe officiating, assisted by the Reverends Paul Ninemire, a Church of God minister from Oak Grove, and Dennis Anger, pastor of the Cypress Street Church of God in West Monroe. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers included former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, political consultant Roy Fletcher (no relation), newspaper publisher Sam Hanna, Jr., of ''The Ouachita Citizen'', and Judge [[Wendell Manning]]. Honorary pallbearers were U.S. Representatives John Fleming and Rodney Alexander and state Senators [[Mike Walsworth|Michael Arthur "Mike" Walsworth]] and [[Neil Riser]], and Fletcher's Sigma Nu fraternity brothers.<ref name=obit/>​

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