WV MEMORIAL
The WVSA will join with other organizations to sponsor the 2023 West Virginia Law Enforcement Officers Memorial which has not been scheduled. Once a date is subsequently set, announcement will be forthcoming. All law enforcement and families are invited to participate.
Surviving families and officers will participate in a laying of a memorial wreath at the State Memorial Statue on the patio of the WV Cultural Center at conclusion of the ceremony.
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HONOR ROLL CALL
In addition to other WV law enforcement officers that have paid the supreme sacrifice for their citizens, the following is a listing of all sheriffs, deputies and constables who have died in the line of duty.
1906 Deputy Andrew Beavers McDowell County
1917 Deputy Sheriff Jesse R. Browning Boone County
1920 Deputy John Morton Webster County
1922 Sheriff Harding Duval Brooke County
1931 Deputy Joseph Myles Greenbrier County
1931 Deputy Claude Cyrus Hamilton Nicholas County
1933 Deputy Roy L. Shamblin Kanawha County
1934 Deputy Leamon Martin Raleigh County
1937 Constable Cecil Alvin Ferrell Boone County
1938 Deputy Jess Thompson Raleigh County
1946 Sheriff Gay Hovatter Tucker County
1949 Deputy Travis French McDowell County
1950 Deputy Joseph A. Tiano Harrison County
1950 Deputy William Dotson Mercer County
1951 Deputy Lego Sheppard Greenbrier County
1975 Deputy Roger Treadway Fayette County
1975 Deputy Jesse Blevens Monroe County
1976 Sheriff Park Richards Calhoun County
1976 Chief Deputy Ernest Hesson Mason County
1976 Deputy Kenneth Love Mason County
1976 Sheriff Elvin Wedge Mason County
1977 Deputy George Maynard McDowell County
1981 Sheriff Vincent Zummo Braxton County
1989 Deputy John Janey Putnam County
2000 Deputy William G. “Bill” Giacomo Nicholas County
2001 Deputy John Burkett III Berkeley County
2007 Corporal Justin Alan Thompson Lincoln County
2012 Sheriff Eugene Crum Mingo County 2012 Sergeant Michael Todd May Monongalia County 2022 Sergeant Thomas E. Baker, III Nicholas County