Roll of Honor
Incident
Village Marshal Franklin Boice suffered a fatal heart attack after arresting a subjet for being drunk in public.
He was walking the man to the village jail with the assistance of a citizen when he suddenly collapsed just a few feet from the jail's door.
Marshal Boice had served as the marshal of the village of Orion for four years.
Orion was later renamed Lake Orion in 1929.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and one child.
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Tributes
128 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Village Marshal Boice gave the Lake Orion Police Department 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Lake Orion community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Village Marshal Franklin Pierce Boice is one of 1,306 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 4% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In MI, 39 of 718 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 5.4% of this state's fallen. That is 1.4 percentage points above the national rate of 4%.
National Cause Distribution
How Cardiac compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Franklin Pierce Boice's cause is highlighted.
How Franklin Pierce Boice Compares
When Cardiac Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Cardiac deaths across the full memorial record. Franklin Pierce Boice is highlighted in Aug.