Roll of Honor
George William Bacorn Jr.
Incident
Chief of Police George Bacorn was killed in a head-on vehicle crash on Dover Road in Easton.
Around 11:26 a.m., Chief Bacorn was traveling eastbound in his agency-owned vehicle when a westbound delivery truck sideswiped another eastbound truck and then struck Chief Bacorn's vehicle head-on.
Survivors
Predeceased by his parents, George William Bacorn Sr. and Shirley Carol Rogers Bacorn. Survived by his wife, Charmaine M. Bacorn; his sons James C. Bacorn, Joseph L. Bacorn (Crystal), Christopher Bacorn (Brittney), Michael W. Bacorn (Alyssa) and Jack C. Bacorn; his sister Diane Brittingham (Will); his grandchildren Kayla, Jaidyn, Austin, Hayden, Cheyenne, Liam, Piper, Braxton, Ellie, Evelyn, Beau, Sawyer and Mackenzie; his great-grandchildren Melody, DJ and Cassandra; and many nieces.
Biography
Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he moved to Caroline County as a child, grew up in Greensboro and graduated from North Caroline High School in Ridgely in 1982. Beyond the department he was a member of the Denton Volunteer Fire Company, a past Commodore of the Choptank River Yacht Club, and a member of Temple Lodge #128 AF&AM.
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Tributes
36 years. You could have gone home.
Chief of Police Jr. gave the Denton Police Department 36 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the people of Maryland. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Chief of Police Jr..
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Chief of Police George William Bacorn Jr. is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,787 officers honored here.
In MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 37.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
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