Joseph Henry Skrabek served in the U.S. Navy for 3 years and 11 months. Joseph served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Skrabek was killed on a rainy morning when he and the driver of a truck hit head-on while driving on U.S. 6, three miles west of Princeton, Illinois. A 19-year-old female deputy with him was injured. The other driver, 43 years old, was also killed. Deputy Skrabek was a United States Navy Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Bureau County Sheriff's Department for six years.
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In tribute
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 Sheriff Skrabek gave the Bureau County Sheriff's Department 6 years.
Thank you for your service to the Princeton community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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