Roll of Honor
Incident
Sheriff Armstrong died after contracting pneumonia. He was conducting a search for a missing girl during a severe snow storm.
Sheriff Armstrong had served as sheriff for 17 months.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
162 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Sheriff Armstrong gave the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Port Hadlock community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Sheriff William W. Armstrong 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 WA, 19 of 339 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 5.6% of this state's fallen. That is 3.5 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
At Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, 1 of 2 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 50% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. William W. Armstrong's cause is highlighted.
How William W. Armstrong Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. William W. Armstrong is highlighted in Dec.
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