Riverside County Sheriff's Department
In Memoriam

A tribute to our deputies who have paid the ultimate price in service to their community.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

"For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon

DEPUTY MANUEL "MANNY" VILLEGAS
June 26, 1973 - March 19, 2007

DEPUTY BRUCE K. LEE
May 19, 1957 - May 13, 2003

DEPUTY BRENT C. JENKINS
January 6, 1958 - March 18, 2003

DEPUTY ERIC ANDREW THACH
March 19, 1965 - October 8, 1999

DEPUTY MICHAEL P. HAUGEN
July 21, 1963 - January 5, 1997

DEPUTY JAMES LEHMANN, Jr
July 29, 1955 - January 5, 1997

DEPUTY KENT HINTERGARDT
December 14, 1959 - May 9, 1993

DEPUTY RANDY ROBERT LUTZ
December 11, 1959 - June 22, 1989

INVESTIGATOR MICHAEL DAVID DAVIS
March 5, 1954 - October 24, 1988

DEPUTY DIRK ALAN LEONARDSON
November 18, 1956 - October 4, 1980

DEPUTY JAMES BERNARD EVANS
February 3, 1941 - May 9, 1980

DEPUTY EDWARD MICHAEL SCHRADER
May 15, 1950 - July 11, 1974

INVESTIGATOR WILLIAM FREDRICK CARTER, Jr
April 8, 1936 - May 20, 1969

SERGEANT WILLIAM JOSEPH RUTLEDGE
December 26, 1937 - May 14, 1969

DEPUTY ROGER ALLEN STRONG
October 5, 1934 - August 7, 1961

DEPUTY HOWARD R. SCHEFFLER
September 1, 1926 - February 29, 1956

DEPUTY HENRY FREDERICK NELSON
January 2, 1874 - September 22, 1921

DEPUTY THEODORE CROSSLEY
July 21, 1877 - September 22, 1921

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