Incident
Deputy Sheriff Stephanie Schreurs succumbed to injuries sustained four days earlier in a single-vehicle crash on K-52, near Rock Rapids, Iowa.
Her patrol vehicle left the roadway on a sharp curve, entered a ditch, and rolled over. She was flown to a hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she remained until succumbing to her injuries.
Deputy Schreurs had served with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office for 24 years.
Survivors
She is survived by her four children.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
24 years. You could have gone home.
Deputy Sheriff Schreurs gave the Lyon County Sheriff's Office 24 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Rock Rapids community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Schreurs.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Deputy Sheriff Stephanie Jean Schreurs 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 IA, 71 of 226 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.4% of this state's fallen. That is 0.4 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Stephanie Jean Schreurs's cause is highlighted.
How Stephanie Jean Schreurs Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Stephanie Jean Schreurs is highlighted in Aug.