Funeral Held for Army Medic Who Died Skyping With Wife

Clark's wife, Susan Orellana-Clark, was in Texas chatting with him via Skype on April 30 when he pitched forward

A funeral service has been held upstate for a U.S. Army medic who collapsed and died in Afghanistan during a Skype video chat with his wife.

Mourners gathered at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Rochester on Tuesday to remember Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark, a father of two.

Susan Orellana-Clark was in Texas chatting with him via Skype on April 30 when he pitched forward. His family initially said they believed the 43-year-old had been shot. The military has since said there was no bullet wound.

The cause of his death is still being investigated.

A wake was held Monday in nearby Spencerport, where Clark's wife is from and where the family lived before Clark joined the Army in 2006.

He'll be interred there at Fairfield Cemetery.

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