Local memorial services for Lt. Frances L. Toner IV will begin at 11 a.m. Sat., May 2 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, 1600 Erbes Road, Thousand Oaks.

The gathering will be a tribute to Toner's life. Known as Frankie to his friends and family, Toner grew up in Thousand Oaks and died a hero in Afghanistan on March 27.

Toner graduated from Westlake High School in 2001, where he was homecoming king. He attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Long Island, N.Y., on a scholarship. In 2006, he graduated from the academy and joined the Navy.

The 26yearold had been stationed in Afghanistan for five months when he was shot and killed while jogging with friends on base. The shooter was an Afghan insurgent disguised as an Afghan soldier.

Toner was trailing behind as the group was jogging because he was wearing body armor that slowed him down, but when the shooting started, the former WHS state championship football running back ran up and tried to tackle the insurgent.

That's when he was shot, his aunt Linda Moosekian of Newbury Park said.

Toner is survived by his wife, Brooke; his father and stepmother, Frank and Sharon Toner; his mother, Becky Toner; his sister, Amanda, 24; and his brothers, Michael, 26, and John, 9.

—Nancy Needham