His widow was also scheduled to deploy -- before her pregnancy.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- With the explosion of a bomb, Faye Quinn went from being a married soldier and expectant mother to a widow and future single parent.

The Edmond native, whose baby is due in March, found out Saturday that her husband, Spc. Adam D. Quinn, was killed Saturday in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.

Adam Quinn, 22, of Orange City, Fla., was deployed to Afghanistan in January with the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division.

"He had a wonderful sense of humor. He was so funny," Faye Quinn, herself a member of the Oklahoma National Guard, said by telephone from Florida. "He was really excited, very proud to be a father."

Faye Quinn was with her husband's parents, Sherri and Charles Quinn, on Tuesday but had been staying with family in Oklahoma since her husband's deployment.

"I'm not sure of future plans right now," she said.

Faye Quinn was scheduled to deploy to Iraq with the 45th Infantry Brigade in January, but that was canceled when she found out she was pregnant shortly after her husband came home on leave in June. She is a specialist with the 700th Support Battalion, but is in the process of leaving the Guard.

Faye Quinn enlisted in the Oklahoma National Guard when she was 17 and still attending Edmond North High School. She graduated in 2003 and married

The couple met in November 2003 at job training. Faye Quinn said she immediately noticed Adam.

Her husband, a paratrooper and an automation specialist with his division, always stressed the importance of enjoying life, Faye Quinn said, and even had the words "eat, drink and be merry" tattooed on one wrist and "for tomorrow we may die" on the other.

A memorial ceremony for Quinn will be held in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said.