ZEBULON - Patrick Michael McLaughlin Jr., 17, died Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 2) at Zebulon Baptist Church.

He was a native of Middlesex County, Mass. He worked for Prestige Photos and was a senior at East Wake High School and a member of the Zebulon Baptist Church Youth Group.

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandmothers, Madeline Hughes and Barbara Doucette Hughes.

Surviving: parents, Patrick Michael and Laura Hughes McLaughlin Sr.; brothers, Christopher Michael and Michael Christopher McLaughlin; maternal grandfather, William Hughes; paternal grandparents, Robert William McLaughlin and Nancy Jean, and Russell George “Papa” Lecaroz.

Arrangements are by Strickland Funeral Home, Wendell.