CLARENCE, N.Y. (Map, News) - Hundreds of mourners are gathering at a church in a Buffalo suburb to remember Jonathon Cote (KOH'-tay), the upstate Army veteran kidnapped and killed while working as a security contractor in Iraq.

Cote's body was found April 19 in southern Iraq. His whereabouts were unknown for 17 months after he and four Crescent Security Group co-workers were abducted while accompanying a convoy of supply trucks for the Italian Army.

The mass of Christian burial in Clarence Friday comes after hundreds of people paid their respects to the slain Iraq war veteran at a wake Wednesday and Thursday.