Roll of Honor
Incident
City Marshal Glenn Rousey was killed while attempting to stop a team of runaway horses on Main Street.
A father and son were carrying a load of lumber in a horse-drawn wagon and stopped on Main Street so the son could go into a store. A passing automobile startled the horses and they started to run. Marshal Rousey was crossing the street in front of the horses and grabbed onto their harness in an attempt to calm them. The horses continued to run, knocking Marshal Rousey to the ground and causing the wagon to run him over.
He was taken home where he died two hours later.
Marshal Rousey had been sworn in as city marshal only two weeks earlier.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife, daughter, and sister.
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Tributes
I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
City Marshal Rousey served with the Effingham Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Effingham community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, City Marshal Rousey.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
City Marshal Glenn Rousey is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In KS, 66 of 335 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 19.7% of this state's fallen. That is 19.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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