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Game Protector

Robert Earl Zimmerman

Pennsylvania Game Commission — Harrisburg, PA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch May 13, 1957

Age 35

Tour of Duty 2 mo

The Vigil Panel 92 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 11

Incident

Game Protector Robert Zimmerman died when his department-issued station wagon collided with a tractor-trailer on Route 11, near Danville.

He was reporting to the Forty Fort Divisional Office when the crash occurred.

Game Protector Robert Zimmerman was a U.S Army veteran of WWII and served with the Pennsylvania Game Commission for only two months.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, daughter, parents, brother, and sister.

In Our Keeping

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Last updated: August 2, 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.
Game Protector Zimmerman served with the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Thank you for your service to the Harrisburg community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Pennsylvania Game Commission

Type Other

Location Harrisburg, PA

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

Service Record

End of Watch May 13, 1957

Tour of Duty 2 mo

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Robert Earl Zimmerman served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Game Protector Robert Earl Zimmerman is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In PA, 417 of 1,261 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.1% of this state's fallen. That is 33.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Pennsylvania Game Commission, 5 of 12 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 41.7% of this agency's fallen.

Pennsylvania Game Commission

of 12 officers

41.7% Accident

PA — Statewide

417

of 1,261 officers

33.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Accident