Roll of Honor
Dale Edward Multer
Incident
Sergeant Dale Multer died after contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty while serving civil papers.
Sergeant Multer was a United States Air Force veteran and served 24 years in law enforcement. He was planning to retire the following year.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Sergeant Dale Edward Multer died on June 27, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 61.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, two children, and his grandchildren.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Sergeant Multer gave the Travis County Constable's Office 24 years.
Thank you for your service to the Austin community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Multer.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Dale Edward Multer served in the Air Force (1978â1990) before joining law enforcement.
Sergeant Dale Edward Multer is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In TX, 204 of 2,421 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 8.4% of this state's fallen. That is 0.7 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Dale Edward Multer's cause is highlighted.
How Dale Edward Multer Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Dale Edward Multer is highlighted in Jun.