Larry Allen Hart

Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Wildlife — Columbus, OH

Cardiac Veteran

End of Watch December 7, 1991

Age 49

Tour of Duty 26 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 8

Incident

Wildlife Officer Larry Hart suffered a fatal heart attack while checking hunters during muzzle-loading deer season. Hunters administered life-saving measures, but he was unable to be revived. Officer Hart was a United States Army Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Wildlife for 26 years, serving as the field supervisor for Preble County, Butler County, and Hamilton County. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and parents. He is buried in Mound Hill Union Cemetery, Eaton, Ohio.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, two sons, and parents.

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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.
Wildlife Officer Hart gave the Ohio Department of Natural Resources 26 years.
Thank you for your service to the Columbus community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Wildlife

Location Columbus, OH

Platform Identity odnrdwcons.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 7, 1991

Tour of Duty 26 yrs

Age 49

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Military Service

Larry Allen Hart served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Wildlife Officer Larry Allen Hart 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 OH, 43 of 991 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 4.3% of this state's fallen. That is 0.3 percentage points above the national rate of 4%.

At Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Wildlife, 1 of 9 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 11.1% of this agency's fallen.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Wildlife

of 9 officers

11.1% Cardiac

OH — Statewide

of 991 officers

4.3% Cardiac

Nationwide

1,306

of 32,508 officers

4% Cardiac