ThinBlueNews Memorial Wall • 10th Anniversary

Captain John Arthur Eckerson

Hampshire County Sheriff's Office, West Virginia
End of Watch: Wednesday, August 17, 2016

ROMNEY, W.Va. — ThinBlueNews remembers Captain John Arthur Eckerson on the 10th anniversary of his End of Watch, August 17, 2016. This is an anniversary remembrance, not a report of a new death.

The approved Officer Down Memorial Page record identifies Eckerson as a captain with the Hampshire County Sheriff's Office and records 29 years of service. ODMP lists his age as 51 and classifies the line-of-duty death as an exposure to toxins connected with the execution of a search warrant. This remembrance omits unnecessary medical and scene detail.

Twenty-nine years of service

ODMP's memorial record preserves Eckerson's identity, rank, agency, service length and End of Watch date. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund locator recorded with his memorial places his name on panel 63-E, line 32 of the national memorial.

ODMP publicly records that Captain Eckerson was survived by two sons, a brother and a sister. ThinBlueNews includes only those limited public family facts and keeps the focus on service and remembrance.

Remembered 10 years later

The 10th anniversary is one of ThinBlueNews' established milestone-remembrance dates. A decade after his End of Watch, Captain Eckerson's 29 years of service remain part of Hampshire County's law-enforcement history.

Ten years after his End of Watch, Captain John Arthur Eckerson is remembered for 29 years of service and for the family, colleagues and community who continue to carry his memory.

End of Watch

Captain John Arthur Eckerson
Hampshire County Sheriff's Office
Romney, West Virginia
End of Watch: Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Age: 51

Sources and visual note

Visual note: ThinBlueNews created an original typography memorial because no portrait with documented publication-level reuse authority was established for this run. No synthetic likeness, representative incident image, badge, seal or invented uniform detail was used.

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