Georgianna Sharrot
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Policewoman

Georgianna Sharrot

Minneapolis Police Department — Minneapolis, MN
Accident
End of Watch June 14, 1937
Age 67
Tour of Duty 23 yrs
Gender Female

Incident

Policewoman Sharrot succumbed to injuries received five months earlier when she was struck by a taxicab at Lyndale Avenue South and Franklin Street.

Policewoman Sharrot had been with the agency for 23 years and was assigned to the Juvenile Protection League as a "street mother."

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23 years. You could have gone home.
Policewoman Sharrot gave the Minneapolis Police Department 23 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Minneapolis community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Policewoman Sharrot.

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN
Platform Identity mpd.hennepin.mn.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 14, 1937
Tour of Duty 23 yrs
Age 67
Gender Female

Incident Details

Cause Accident

The Sacrifice · Accident

Georgianna is one of 8,276 officers lost to accidents in the United States, 30% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,102 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1937, 95 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 10th heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Georgianna was 67. Of the 7,718 lost to accidents in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 29 and 46; the middle age was 36. Georgianna had served 23 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

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When

June holds 7.9% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.4%. Mondays: 13.4%.

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How

Accident deaths account for 30% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the 2nd most common cause.

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Her people

Minneapolis Police Department has 50 officers remembered here, Georgianna among them.

Across the years

Policewoman Georgianna Sharrot

Minneapolis Police Department · End of Watch June 14, 1937

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 54-W

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