Phillip D. Holbert
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Corrections Officer V

Phillip D. Holbert

COVID-19 → Illness
End of Watch December 27, 2020
Age 58
Tour of Duty 14 yrs
Gender Male

Incident

Corrections Officer V Phillip Holbert died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 during an outbreak among employees and inmates at the Formby State Jail in Plainview.

Officer Holbert had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 14 years. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, three grandchildren, and sister. His sister also served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Corrections Officer V Phillip D. Holbert died on December 27, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 58.

He is one of 885 officers honored here, and one of 55 at Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division.

Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.

Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, three daughters, three grandchildren, and sister.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Corrections Officer V Holbert gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 14 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Officer V Holbert.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Corrections
Location Huntsville, Walker County, TX
Platform Identity tdcjcidcorr.walker.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 27, 2020
Tour of Duty 14 yrs
Age 58
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Phillip is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2020, 346 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 2nd heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Phillip was 58. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Phillip had served 14 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

December holds 9.6% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 14.9%. Sundays: 14.2%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division has at least 120 officers remembered here, Phillip among them.

Across the years
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Where

Corrections Officer V Phillip D. Holbert

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division · End of Watch December 27, 2020

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 41-E

Also Remembered

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