Our Fallen Heroes

"All Gave Some, Some Gave All"

SSVFD Line of Duty Deaths (LODD)

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Firefighter David A. Poplis

LODD: 12/04/1964

On December 4, 1964, David A. Poplis succumbed to an embolism, resulting from a fracture sustained when he fell from a moving ambulance.

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Captain Richard B. Thomas

LODD: 04/19/1968

On April 19, 1968, Captain Richard B. Thomas was with several other members responding to a brush fire on Chandlee Mill Road. The vehicle overturned killing him.

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Sergeant Eldridge Pier

LODD: 04/01/1971

On April 1, 1971, career Sergeant Eldridge Pier suffered a fatal stroke while fighting a brush fire on Chandlee Mill Road in Brookville, MD.

In Memorium

Paying tribute & remembering the service of these great individuals who are no longer here with us.

  • Abbott, Alfred S. – 1970
  • Abbott, Elizabeth – 1997
  • Ackerman, Gerald R. 1991
  • Adams, Herbert H. – 1946
  • Archer, Susan – 2010
  • Arrowood, Clifford Eugene – 2022
  • Barger, Oliver L. – 1957
  • Barnsley, J. Ferguson – 1956
  • Becraft,Earl L.- 1997
  • Bishop, Gaynes – 1990
  • Bishop-Johnson, Bulah “Vi”- 2011
  • Bond, Frederick J. – 1995
  • Broyles, Guy E. – 1989
  • Byrne, Alice – 2006
  • Byrne Jr., John – 1976
  • Cantwell, John H. – 1942
  • Carr, Roxanne Brady -1999
  • Clark, John V. – 2008
  • Clark Jr., Henry T. – 2000
  • Cooper, Gleen B. – 1999
  • Craver, Robert E. – 1997
  • Cuff Sr., Robert – 1994
  • Dailey, Herbert E. – 1964
  • Dantz, Russell E. – 1993
  • Dantz, Sarah – 2002
  • Brady, William – 1988
  • Brigham, David A. – 2003
  • Brigham, David L. – 1999
  • Brown, Constance “Connie” – 2022
  • Brown, Henry L. – 1938
  • Brown Jr., Spencer J.H. – 2008
  • Brown Sr., Spencer J.H. – 1977
  • Dantz Sr., Vernon W. -1974
  • Davis, Edgar – 1950
  • Davis, Frances – 2003
  • Davis, Roy E. – 1983
  • Dianda, Carl F. – 2016
  • Farquhar, A. Douglas – 1977
  • Finneyfrock, Samuel J. – 1961
  • Fones, Frank – 2013
  • Fones, Roseanne Gilpin – 2022
  • Gates, Jack – 1998
  • Gibbons, A. Marvin – 1990
  • Gilpin, Anne – 1966
  • Gilpin, Beth – 2021
  • Gilpin, Frederick S. – 1985
  • Gilpin, William H. – 1976
  • Glotfelty, Robert – 2009
  • Harden, Hubert – 2016
  • Harding, Herbert L. – 1956
  • Harvey, Willard – 1986
  • Hawkins, Lee – 1977
  • Henderson, James T. – 1972
  • Hobbs, David A. – 2020
  • Hobbs Sr., Donald R. – 1990
  • Hobbs, Joyce – 1991
  • Hobbs, Kenneth C. – 1996
  • Hobbs, Leonard F. – 2000
  • Hobbs, Mary – 2004
  • Hobbs, Robert P. – 1988
  • Hobbs, Thomas Phillip – 2024
  • Howes Sr., Calvin M. -1967
  • Hurd Sr., George L. – 1964
  • Hyde IV, Thomas – 1949
  • Janney, Richard – 2009
  • Johnson, William B. – 1977
  • Jones, Josiah W. – 1946
  • Kemp, Robert – 1978
  • Kern, John – 2008
  • Leishear, Bernard – 1984
  • Lethbridge, Harold D. – 1967
  • Lethbridge, Louis M. – 1994
  • Lethbridge, Richard – 1991
  • Marrow, Eugene – 2003
  • Marrow, James E. – 1999
  • McTighe, Jr., Michael Augustine – 2023
  • Meyer, John Justus – 2010
  • Miller Jr., Robert H. – 1977
  • Murphy, Albert – 1981
  • Musgrove, Calvin E. – 2015
  • Musgrove, Howard – 1992

     

  • Musgrove Jr., Harry Z. – 2008
  • Newcomer, Bruce – 2012
  • Nicholson, Charles T. – 2009
  • O’Keefe, Douglas – 2003
  • Pack, Robert G. – 1996
  • Pattie, Meredith – 1980
  • Pier, Eldridge M. – 1971
  • Poplis, David A. – 1964
  • Ramey, Roland – 1998
  • Rhodes, Thomas C. – 2014
  • Ricketts, William – 1954
  • Riggs, George W. – 1954
  • Sandrus, Patricia, – 2015
  • Shorts Sr., Arthur E. – 1979
  • Shotts, William – 2005
  • Smith, Arthur – 1994
  • Smith, Lois Abrahams – 1983
  • Snowden, Edward -1956
  • Snowden, Francis – 2003
  • Somerville, Connie – 2016
  • Stabler, Maurice]. – 1950
  • Stabler, Osburn N. – 1962
  • Stull, Newton – 1989
  • Suthard, G. Gregory – 2015
  • Thomas, Francis A. – 1976
  • Thomas, William J. – 1957
  • Thomas, Samuel P. – 1953
  • Thomas III, Richard B. – 1968
  • Thomas III, William J. – 1998
  • Thomas Jr., Richard B. – 1997
  • Thompson, Andrew – 1979
  • Thompson, Maurice G. – 1928
  • Tumbleson, Charles C. – 1950
  • Valente Jr., Anthony F. – 2014
  • Valente, Michael A – 2021
  • Wacker, Elizabeth Wood – 2003
  • Wenzel, Lawrence – 1987
  • Wilkinson, William – 1984
  • Wood Sr., Delmas P. – 1965