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Fallen Comrades
Remembering those employees who have made the ultimate sacrifice.


photo: Memorial Wall dedication



Deceased Employee Station
October 15, 1917
 William H. Lynch
 Woods Hole, MA
May 27, 1920
 Arthur V. Dean
 Leadville NFH, CO
May 27, 1920
 William Lavery
 Leadville NFH, CO
August 17, 1922 Edgar Albert Lindgren Law Enforcement, IA 
December 10, 1934 Edward Bradford Whitehead Law Enforcement, GA
June 2, 1945  Andrew Bryant Crews Okefenokee NWR, GA 
June 2, 1945  Joe Daniel Martin Okefenokee NWR, GA 
May 22, 1947 Paul R. Schneider  Tule Lake NWR, CA
December 5, 1948 L.P. "Ike" Kindler Imperial NWR, AZ
August 24, 1949  Clarence S. Johnson Lower Souris NWR, ND 
August 24, 1949  Roy R. Ferguson  Lower Souris NWR, ND 
June 28, 1952
 Hosea Sarber
 Law Enforcement, AK
September 1, 1954 Patte Davis Bidwell Wildlife Management, AK
September 1, 1954 George B. Kelez Fisheries Management, AK
September 1, 1954 Lawrence Kolloen Fisheries Management, WA
September 1, 1954 Robert Meek Aviation Service, AK
September 1, 1954 Richard Shuman Fisheries Managment, WA
September 9, 1955  James Petersen Kenai National Moose Range, AK 
September 9, 1955  Gerald Watson Kenai National Moose Range, AK 
May 28, 1957  Ross M. Harrington  Columbia NWR, WA
August 21, 1958  Clarence J. Rhode  Regional Office, AK
August 21, 1958  Stanley Fredericksen  Regional Office, AK
July 22, 1965 Verlon E. Prafke Biological Station Ludington, MI
May 12, 1967  J. Donald Smith  Management and Enforcement, Wash, D.C. 
May 12, 1967  Robert A. Uppgren Wildlife Services, MN 
July 2, 1967 William B. Arnold Yellowstone Fisheries Office, WY
June 13, 1968  Donald M. Brooks  Holla Bend NWR, AR
May 19, 1969 Theodore Brock  Entiat NFH, WA
May 24, 1969  William R. Edwards  Law Enforcement, MS
August 6, 1969 Paul Martin Forestry Sciences Laboratory WRC, WA 
July 27, 1970  Jerry Fisher Alaska Area Office, AK 
April 27, 1970 Arnold Fryer District Field Office, MT 
June 12, 1970 Encarnacio Munoz Aransas NWR, TX 
February 20, 1971 Kenneth Wilson Animal Damage Control, ID 
March 9, 1971  Ivan L. Morfitt  Klamath Basin NWR, CA
February 5, 1973  Wesley Goetz  National Elk Refuge, WY 
March 28, 1973 Ray Sword Jones Hole NFH, UT 
September 30, 1974 Dr. Robert D. Bergman Alaska Area Office, AK 
September 30, 1974 Leonard A. Boughton Alaska Area Office, AK 
September 30, 1974 J. Larry Haddock  Alaska Area Office, AK 
August 25, 1975  James M. Cox MBMO, Patuxent, MD 
January 19, 1976 Elwood E. Scheel White River NWR, AR 
May 26, 1977  Jack L. Shannon Abernathy SCDC, WA 
January 30, 1978 James Christopher Byrne Great Swamp NWR, NJ 
February 28, 1979 Richard S. Bolt, Jr. Okefenokee NWR, GA
August 15, 1979 Gary L. Lambert  Animal Damage Control, NM 
August 15, 1979 Robert E. Evans Animal Damage Control, TX
August 26, 1980 Elmer H. Simpson Desert NWR, NV
December 17, 1980  George G. Wheeler, Jr. Turnbull NWR, WA 
June 8, 1981  Scott Jay Maness  Merritt Island, NWR, FL
June 9, 1981  Beau W. Sauselein  Merritt Island, NWR, FL
May 6, 1982  Corlin C. Cook  Kansas City Ecological Services Field Office, MO 
April 21, 1984  Roy Lee Felder Orangeburg NFH, SC
September 26, 1984 Lawrence H. Schumacher Sequoyah NWR, OK
May 21, 1986 Alice Nichols Eco. Services, NJ
August 8, 1986 F. Richard Barcelona Yukon Flats NWR, AK 
August 10, 1987 Edward Lee Doggett Eastern Shore of Virginia NWR, VA
March 1, 1989  Benjamin Robertson San Bernardino NWR, AZ
July 16, 1990  Suzanne Sterling Protection Island NWR, WA
January 28, 1990 Douglas J. Morris Law Enforcement, TX
January 30, 1990 John T. Cantu Aleutian Island Unit, Alaska Maritime NWR, AK 
January 30, 1990 Karen L. Norton  Aleutian Island Unit, Alaska Maritime NWR, AK 
October 11, 1990 George E. Menkens, Jr.  Alaska Fish & Wildlife Research Center, AK 
October 11, 1990 John S. Bevins Alaska Fish & Wildlife Research Center, AK 
November 12, 1992  Stephen J. Young Yukon Flats NWR, AK 
July 12, 1994  Valerie A. Chabot Endangered Species Division, AK 
September 23, 1994 Gary Steinbach  Biological Station Marquette, MI 
July 3, 1997 Joshua B. Nove  Alaska Peninsula NWR, AK 
November 6, 1998 Kathleen Cheap Mid-Columbia River NWR, OR 
November 6, 1998 James M. Callow Mid-Columbia River NWR, OR 
May 21, 2000 Lloyd A. Smith, Jr. Quinault National Fish Hatchery, WA
April 27, 2001 Murphy Peterson Alligator River NWR, NC
September 11, 2001 Richard Guadagno Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, CA
December 6, 2005
 Elaine Avis Barnett
 Lake Umbagog NWR, NH
December 8, 2005
 Thomas Patrick Cloherty
 Law Enforcement, ME
(Highlighted names link to biographies) 


photo: plaque on memorial wall




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Inscribed Bricks in the Fallen Comrades Courtyard

To Order a Brick from the Friends of NCTC, please fill out the following form or contact the Friends directly at 304 876-7781.
Brick Order Form (PDF)
Brochure on Fallen Comrades Memorial (PDF)

History of the Fallen Comrades Memorial

As the Heritage Committee compiles a written and oral history of the Service, a subcommittee has been established to formally recognize those employees killed in the line of duty. A temporary memorial plaque on the Director’s corridor in the Main Interior Building eventually was replaced by a permanent memorial at the National Conservation Training Center, the Service’s “home,” and the site of the agency’s archives and museum. The subcommittee, composed of Ron Anglin (chair), Rick Lemon, Denny Holland (for retirees), Steve Chase and Spence Conley, would like to ensure that it has a complete list of those individual who lost their lives in their capacities as Service employees.  Please take the time to review the following list.  If you know of anyone who should be added or corrections which need to be made, please contact Mark Madison by email (mark_madison@fws.gov) or phone (304 876-7276).  In addition to the memorial the National Conservation Training Center would also like to compile biographies of our fallen comrades.  If you have any biographical information about those on the list please send that to Mark Madison, Historian, National Conservation Training Center, 698 Conservation Way, Shepherd Grade Road, Shepherdstown, WV 25443-9713, (304) 876-7276 (ph); (304) 876-7270 (fax); mark_madison@fws.gov

 
Criteria for Inclusion in the Fallen Comrades Memorial 
Inclusion on the fallen comrades memorial will be based on meeting both the criteria of location and causation.

 
Location:

USFWS Employees need to have met one of the following criteria at the time of death.

a) On Agency Premises:  The employee will have been killed  while performing assigned duties or engaging in an activity which was reasonably associated with employment at one's place of employment.
 

b)  Off Agency Premises:   The employee will have been killed while performing agency related work away from one's place of employment.  Examples of inclusion might include death while traveling on business or while engaged on a mission away from the primary site.

 
Causation:

USFWS employees need to have met the following criteria for causation at the time of death.
 
Direct causation:

The employee's death is the direct result of injury or factors of employment that can be traced through a natural or unbroken sequence.
 
Definitions:

For the purpose of the memorial USFWS employee shall be defined as a worker carrying out the mission of the Service and its predecessor agencies.  In addition to direct agency employees this would also include Civilian Conservation Corps, Youth Conservation Corps, Job Corps, and regular agency volunteers.
 
Special Cases:

Realizing that the criteria are open to interpretation, all questionable cases of inclusion will be referred to the Heritage Committee which will vote secretly by simple majority rule as to inclusion or exclusion.



This web page is maintained by:

Mark Madison, Historian
National Conservation Training Center
Mark_Madison@fws.gov