Roll of Honor
Delbert Ray Flowers, Jr.
Incident
Sergeant Delbert Flowers died as a result of being exposed to carbon monoxide inside his 1982 Dodge Diplomat police cruiser due to a faulty ignition switch. A Penn Township Police Department officer was requested to locate Sergeant Flowers when he failed to respond to dispatchers at about 4:00 am. The officer located him inside the car parked near the borough's maintenance shed on Rettew Lane. A small fire had started near the ignition switch in the car after he had become unconscious. An autopsy revealed that Sergeant Flowers had died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Sergeant Flowers was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and had served with the Manheim Borough Police Department for nine years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and son.
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Tributes
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Sergeant Flowers gave the Manheim Borough Police Department 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the Manheim community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Delbert Ray Flowers, Jr. served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
Sergeant Delbert Ray Flowers, Jr. is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.
In PA, 417 of 1,261 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.1% of this state's fallen. That is 33.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
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Military Service
Delbert Ray Flowers, Jr. served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
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