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The Epitaph Newsletter

We invite you to peruse issues of GCPOMS’s newsletter, The Epitaph.

October 2024

  • In this issue we remember Officers Jacob Derbin and Jamieson Ritter, who both died in the Line of Duty this year.

May 2024

  • In Memoriam – Never forget those that have paid the ultimate price for our safety.

April 2024

  • Message from the President
  • Officers added to The Memorial
  • Bentleyville, OH

December 2023

In Memoriam – We will never forget!

October/November 2023

  • Message from the President
  • Badges of Courage: Detective Lieutenant William L. Foulks
  • In Memoriam

May 2023

  • In Memoriam

May 2022

  • Message from the President
  • Survivor’s Corner: Summer Bartek, Survivor & Twin Sister of Patrol Officer Shane H. Bartek
  • In Memoriam

March 2022

  • Message from the President
  • Survivor’s Corner: Richard Rob, Detective Sergeant (Retired) Parma Heights Police Department, on Sergeant Robert W. Bennett
  • Badges of Courage: Parma Heights Police Department Chief Steve Scharschmidt

December 2021

  • Message from the President
  • Survivor’s Corner: Doris J. Robertson, Daughter of Patrolman Garner M. Robertson (EOW 7/8/1956)
  • Badges of Courage: Patrolman Garner M. Robertson

October 2021

  • Message from the President
  • Survivor’s Corner: Candice Soine, Granddaughter of U.S. Deputy Marshal John Luses
  • Badges of Courage: U.S. Deputy Marshal John Luses and U.S. Deputy Marshal Hugh Brantly

April 2021

  • Message from the President
  • Survivor’s Corner: Lorain County Deputy Sheriff John P. Palermo
  • Badges of Courage: Lorain County Sheriff Phil R. Stammitti

December 2020

  • Message from the President
  • Survivor’s Corner
  • Badges of Courage: Heroes Among Us

October 2020

  • Message from the President
  • Survivor’s Corner: Father Doug Brown on Officer William G. Brown
  • Badges of Courage: Father Doug Brown
  • Remembering Detective James Skernivitz
  • Heads up on 2021 Police Week Events

May 2020 Anniversary Issue

  • Message from the President
  • In Memoriam
  • Badges of Courage

January-February-March 2020

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner: Paul J. Matias, Chief of the Mayfield Village Police Dept.; Donald H. Stevens, Mayfield Village Chief of Police from 1973-2003
  • Badges of Courage: Spotlight on Mayfield Village PD
  • In Memoriam
  • CCPOMS License Plates

October-November-December 2019

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner: Patrolman Brian Kloka
  • Badges of Courage
  • Memorial Gifts
  • In Memoriam

July-August-September 2019

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner: Sergeant Dennis Glivar, Patrolman Robert Stefanov, and Patrolman Michael W. Brown
  • Badges of Courage
  • In Memoriam
  • GCPOMS Goals
  • Memorial Mini-Market

May-June 2019

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner: Patrol Officer Jason Gresko
  • GCPOMS Plates
  • Badges of Courage

March-April 2019

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner: Patrol Officer Hilary S. Cudnik Sr.
  • In Memoriam
  • Badges of Courage
  • Profile on Eric B. Smith, Special Agent, Cleveland FBI field office
  • Tribute to Special Agent Johnnie Oliver
  • Police Week events
  • Memorial pavers

January-February 2019

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner
  • Badges of Courage
  • In Memoriam
  • Police Week 2019 and the 34th Annual Police Memorial Commemoration

November-December 2018

  • Message from the President
  • Honor Our Fallen
  • Survivors’ Corner
  • In Our Thoughts
  • In Memoriam
  • Badges of Courage
  • All Points Bulletin

September-October 2018

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner
  • Badges of Courage
  • In Memoriam
  • All Points Bulletin

July-August 2018

  • Message from the President
  • Survivors’ Corner
  • Tony Rizzo RBS
  • Badges of Courage
  • Honor Our Fallen
  • All Points Bulletin

May 2018

  • 33rd Annual GCPOMS Commemoration is 3 Weeks Away
  • Light Up Northern Ohio Blue
  • Police Unity Tour
  • Each Paver Remembers / Memorial Expansion

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May 2017

  • Honoring our fallen at the Greater Cleveland Peace Officers Memorial – Patrol Officer David Fahey of the Cleveland PD and Trooper Kenneth Velez of the Ohio State Highway Patrol
  • Help for the family of Sergeant Tommy Jones
  • 32nd Annual Greater Cleveland Peace Officers Memorial Society Commemoration May 13-21
  • Cleveland International Tattoo May 20
  • Police Week Auctions and Raffles May 20

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February 2015

Memorial Society Announces Expansion of Memorial… Police Fatalities Rise 24% in 2014… “America’s Finest”–by Chas Lane, Jr., President… In Memoriam of Joanne McConeghy… Upcoming events and more. Read issue…