Charles E. Calvert

Wyoming Department of Game and Fish — Cheyenne, WY

Cardiac Veteran

End of Watch January 26, 1965

Age 44

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Deputy Game Warden Charles Calvert suffered a fatal heart attack while he and another game warden managed an elk herd in the Wind River Mountains.

The wardens were using snow machines to move the elk back down the mountain to the refuge on the East Fork of the Big Wind River. When Deputy Warden Calvert failed to return to the refuge headquarters the other warden went to search for him and discovered his body next to his snow machine. It appeared as though he was attempting to crank the machine to start it when he suffered a heart attack.

Deputy Warden Calvert had served with the Wyoming Department of Game and Fish for 10 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three children.

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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.
Deputy Game Warden Calvert gave the Wyoming Department of Game and Fish 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cheyenne 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 Wyoming Department of Game and Fish

Location Cheyenne, WY

Platform Identity wdgffed.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 26, 1965

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 44

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Military Service

Charles E. Calvert served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Deputy Game Warden Charles E. Calvert 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 WY, 4 of 63 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 6.3% of this state's fallen. That is 2.3 percentage points above the national rate of 4%.

At Wyoming Department of Game and Fish, 1 of 6 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 16.7% of this agency's fallen.

Wyoming Department of Game and Fish

of 6 officers

16.7% Cardiac

WY — Statewide

of 63 officers

6.3% Cardiac

Nationwide

1,306

of 32,508 officers

4% Cardiac