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  • KCFD Line of Duty Deaths
    KCFD Members Who Died in Line of Duty
    Feb 28, 2017

    Kansas City, MO Fire Department - Line Of Duty Deaths
    Research by Ray Elder, Historian, KC Fire Historical Society
    Updated August 2020

    Name Date of Death
    1 William H. Craig 03-07-1887
    2 William J. McArdle 11-02-1888
    3 Bernard M. McBreen 09-03-1889
    4 Edward M. Carroll 04-29-1891
    5 Patrick O’Reilly 10-12-1891
    6 Joseph McArdle 02-21-1893
    7 Thomas Dwyer 01-05-1894
    8 Alvin E. Canaday 10-09-1895
    9 Fred D. Goodhue 09-27-1897
    10 James F. McNellis 05-10-1899
    11 Charles O. Peterson 10-29-1899
    12 Michael J. Mahoney 08-15-1900
    13 Michael F. Haney 04-26-1903
    14 George L. Stapleton 09-15-1904
    15 Arthur W. Pendergast 04-12-1906
    16 Francis P. McNellis 04-18-1906
    17 Joseph H. Rayburn 06-06-1908
    18 William M. Maher 08-24-1910
    19 Michael Foley 02-06-1912
    20 Michael Moran 12-31-1914
    21 Patrick H. Allen 06-19-1915
    22 John W. Simpson 10-08-1917
    23 John J. Vaughn 10-26-1917
    24 Jacob Becker 02-19-1918
    25 Lawrence J. Owsley 02-20-1918
    26 Timothy P. O’Sullivan 01-24-1919
    27 Douglas Sivewright 01-08-1921
    28 Robert Edwards 10-21-1921
    29 Thomas P. Considine 01-04-1924
    30 W. Earl Harvey 07-17-1924
    31 John P. Heydon 07-17-1924
    32 James H. Staats 12-08-1924
    33 John J. Crane 02-14-1925
    34 Thomas O’Connor 03-29-1925
    35 John B. Hogan 06-25-1926
    36 Frank H. Boston 05-01-1926
    37 Joseph J. Lyndon  11-10-1926
    38 Benjamin D. Berkowitz 02-13-1927
    39 Charles L. Henry 12-14-1927
    40 Frank G. Balzarini 03-19-1928
    41 Roy W. Rutherford 08-05-1929
    42 Frank M. Loncar Jr. 08-05-1929
    43 John R. Morris 08-05-1929
    44 George F. Knight 09-12-1929
    45 Harry Hagebush 02-11-1930
    46 William G. Canary  01-17-1931
    47 Daniel J. McCarty 01-28-1932
    48 William H. McDaniel 02-18-1932
    49 Frank K. Stark 02-19-1932
    50 Clyde V. McKenzie 04-04-1935
    51 Matthew A. Douglass 05-12-1936
    52 Carl L. McClure 05-12-1936
    53 John W. Glynn  06-11-1936
    54 Jerome P. O’Connor 10-31-1936
    55 David G. Tanyer 07-16-1938
    56 James H. Doman 02-23-1939
    57 Robert J. Muller 02-23-1939
    58 Donald Lewis 05-22-1941
    59 Oliver B. Wilson 05-24-1941
    60 Charles Mandacina 02-02-1942
    61 Edward M. Scanlon 03-13-1942
    62 Michael C. Joy 11-07-1942
    63 Harley E. Lee 10-26-1943
    64 William R. Stiles 10-26-1943
    65 Alvy C. Ready 03-23-1944
    66 Edward Snead 09-14-1945
    67 William W. Oliver 08-09-1947
    68 Paul Nuccio 07-20-1949
    69 John L. Beatty 01-05-1950
    70 Clarence J. Wager 07-13-1951
    71 Harvey L. Baldwin 03-21-1953
    72 Don A. Nastasio 04-01-1953
    73 Melvin J. Kurtz 04-01-1953
    74 Joseph P. Cooney 04-01-1953
    75 Otto P. Schmidt 07-18-1953
    76 Philip E. Davis 03-30-1954
    77 Harry J. Edelman 08-22-1958
    78 Virgil L. Sams 08-18-1959
    79 Neal K. Owen 08-18-1959
    80 George E. Bartels 08-21-1959
    81 Delbert W. Stone 08-23-1959
    82 Peter T. Sirna 08-24-1959
    83 Charles W. Bryan 09-07-1961
    84 John E. Hardy Sr. 09-20-1963
    85 Clarence Blankenbaker 02-03-1965
    86 Carl W. DeFord 02-08-1966
    87 Clifford W. Jackson 03-29-1968
    88 Oscar R. Elvin 01-06-1971
    89 Eric W. Hunt 06-18-1976
    90 Alfred O. Sherman 11-18-1978
    91 Gideon Bennett 02-09-1979
    92 John W. Gainey Sr. 04-09-1979
    93 Dale J. Walker 04-27-1981
    94 James H. Kilventon Jr. 11-29-1988
    95 Robert D. McKarnin 11-29-1988
    96 Michael R. Oldham 11-29-1988
    97 Gerald C. Halloran 11-29-1988
    98 Thomas M. Fry 11-29-1988
    99 Luther E. Hurd 11-29-1988
    100 Joseph S. Valdiviez 10-14-1992
    101 Nick J. Charmello 01-28-1994
    102 John O.H. Tvedten 12-18-1999
    103 Carl G. Kissgen Jr. 04-20-2001
    104 Gerald K. McGowan 09-05-2004
    105 Terrance D. Crockett 03-17-2008
    106 Richard E. Paul 01-07-2011
    107 Bruce T. Stiles 11-05-2011
    108 Larry J. Leggio 10-12-2015
    109 John V. Mesh 10-12-2015
    110 Daniel D.  Rapp 02/16/2016
    111 Thomas G. Byrne 02-11-2017
    112 Roger Rhoads 02-05-2018
    113 Jerry Bayton 08-23-2019
    114 Billy Birmingham 04-13-2020
    115 Robert Bobby Rocha 11-21-2020
    116 Scott Davidson 11-22-2020
    117 Raymond Wynn 3-27-2021
    118 John Parison, III 11-17-2023
    119 Kyle Brinker 09-17-2024
    120 Graham Hoffman 04-27-2025




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