Raymond M. Koerber

Nebraska State Patrol — Lincoln, NE

Accident Veteran

End of Watch September 18, 1961

Age 35

Badge 108

The Vigil Panel 96 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 14

Incident

Trooper Raymond Koerber was killed in an automobile accident while attempting to stop a speeding vehicle on Highway 75. While traveling on Highway 75, another vehicle began to back out of a driveway into the highway. Trooper Koerber's patrol car collided with the vehicle and struck a tractor trailer head-on. Trooper Koerber was a United States Army World War II veteran.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and five children.

In Our Keeping

Permanent identifier: BO-US-NE-2091F207
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Added to badge.nw: April 2, 2026
Last updated: July 23, 2026

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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.
Trooper Koerber served with the Nebraska State Patrol.
Thank you for your service to the people of Nebraska, 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 Nebraska State Patrol

Location Lincoln, NE

Platform Identity nhp.ne.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 18, 1961

Age 35

Badge Number 108

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Raymond M. Koerber served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Trooper Raymond M. Koerber is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In NE, 36 of 151 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 23.8% of this state's fallen. That is 7.2 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.

At Nebraska State Patrol, 7 of 15 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 46.7% of this agency's fallen.

Nebraska State Patrol

of 15 officers

46.7% Accident

NE — Statewide

of 151 officers

23.8% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident