Roll of Honor
Kenneth Meenan
Incident
Location: Colorado Incident Date: Monday, August 13, 1934
Park Ranger Kenneth Meenan succumbed to injuries sustained eight days earlier while on motorcycle patrol in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
His motorcycle collided with a vehicle on Trail Ridge Road, north of the Grand Lake entrance to the park. He was transported to St. Luke's Hospital, in Denver, where his foot was amputated. He died after developing septic poisoning.
Ranger Meenan had served with the National Park Service for three years.
Thank you for your service.
Tim Liddell CA Hwy Patrol 5342 ( retired ) April 4th, 2025
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Park Ranger Meenan gave the United States Department of the Interior 3 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Park Ranger Meenan.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Park Ranger Kenneth Meenan 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 DC, 453 of 1,418 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.9% of this state's fallen. That is 31.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service, 28 of 40 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 70% of this agency's fallen.
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How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Kenneth Meenan's cause is highlighted.
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