Each year in May, law enforcement agencies across the country pause to remember the lives and legacies of officers killed in the line of duty. The solemn events at the national memorial in Washington, where the names of the fallen are etched in marble, are echoed in local ceremonies.
The Elkhart County Sheriff's Department conducted its memorial service Tuesday, May 13, in Goshen. The ECSD Honor Guard performed its rituals, and department chaplains offered their thoughts on the importance of service and the reasons to remember to the fallen.
For more information about officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice, please visit the Officer Down Memorial.
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Officers from area departments who have died in the line of duty:
Elkhart
• Williard S. Burton (1888)
• Oren M. Shelmadine (1920)
• Henry W. Wentz (1924)
• Douglas M. Adams (2001)
Goshen
• Thomas E. Goodwin (1998)
Nappanee
• Brant "Butch" Nine (1988)
Indiana State Police
• Richard F. England (1942)
• Donald R. Turner (1956)
• David A. Deuter (1998)
• Richard T. Gaston (1999)
• Jason E. Beal (2000)
Bremen
• Tony E. Swartzlander (1981)
Plymouth
• James A. Nelson (1967)
Kosciusko County
• Phillip D. Hochstetler (1994)
LaGrange County
• Harry Spice (1937)
• Gregory O. Cushing (1995)
LaGrange
• Michael L. Waldron (1974)
St. Joseph County
• James W. Mumford (1962)
Mishawaka
• Clarence Casper (1930)
• Bryan S. Verkler (2003)
• Thomas Roberts (2003)
South Bend
• Oscar Christensen (1886)
• Samuel Cooper (1900)
• Lewis Keller (1908)
• Hans B. Brandt (1916)
• Fred E. Buhland (1921)
• Neil McIntyre (1923)
• Lloyd L. Thompson (1932)
• Charles E. Farkas Sr. (1933)
• Delbert Thompson (1933)
• Howard C. Wagner (1934)
• Ronald St. Germain (1967)
• Thomas J. DeRue Sr. (1974)
• Paul R. Deguch (1997)
• Scott Severns (2006)
• Nick Polizzotto (2007) |
