Leroy Brown Stackhouse

Pennsylvania Game Commission — Harrisburg, PA

Cardiac

End of Watch September 28, 1969

Age 68

Tour of Duty 42 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 11

Incident

Deputy Game Protector Leroy Stackhouse suffered a fatal heart attack while attempting to remove a deer carcass from Route 191, near the intersection with Route 507, in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania.

A resident had called him to report that the carcass was in the roadway at about 7:35 pm. A passing motorist discovered his body in the roadway approximately one hour later.

Deputy Game Protector Stackhouse had served with the Pennsylvania Game Commission for 42 years and also held a commission as a deputy game agent with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, two daughters, and eight grandchildren.

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Tributes

42 years. You could have gone home.
Deputy Game Protector Stackhouse gave the Pennsylvania Game Commission 42 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Harrisburg community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Game Protector Stackhouse.

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

Agency

Department Pennsylvania Game Commission

Location Harrisburg, PA

Platform Identity pgc.dauphin.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 28, 1969

Tour of Duty 42 yrs

Age 68

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Deputy Game Protector Leroy Brown Stackhouse 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 PA, 118 of 1,261 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 9.4% of this state's fallen. That is 5.4 percentage points above the national rate of 4%.

At Pennsylvania Game Commission, 2 of 12 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 16.7% of this agency's fallen.

Pennsylvania Game Commission

of 12 officers

16.7% Cardiac

PA — Statewide

118

of 1,261 officers

9.4% Cardiac

Nationwide

1,306

of 32,508 officers

4% Cardiac