"Silent Key"
Silent Key: Jennifer Garner
January 19, 2023Southwest (Texas) Regional Communications Center Deputy Director Jennifer Garner, 46, of Waxahachie died Tuesday. Garner had served as Texas APCO…
Read full articleSilent Key: Donald Ray Whitney
December 29, 2022APCO Life Member Don Whitney passed away December 28. Whitney enjoyed a long tenure in public safety communications for Motorola and was a longstanding member of the Commercial Advisory Council (CAC), including service on the APCO Board of Directors.
Read full articleSilent Key: Sammye Foster Cotton
November 21, 2022Sammye Foster Cotton of Wills Point, Texas, passed way Nov. 16 at the age of 43 after a battle with ALS. Cotton was Garland (Texas) Police Department Communications Manager and an APCO member who previously worked for McKinney (Texas) Police Department and the Commerce (Texas) Police Department.
Read full articleSilent Key: James Robert “Jimmy” Scanlon
November 9, 2022Hopkins (Minnesota) Fire Department Assistant Chief and APCO member James “Jimmy” Scanlon died November 4 after going into cardiac arrest the day before. He was 38.
Read full articleSilent Key: Bob Marz
October 7, 2022Bob Marz, an APCO life member, passed away October 5 at home in South Ogden, Utah, with his family. He was 87.
Read full articleSilent Key: John J. Daly
September 22, 2022John J. Daly, 66, whose life was dedicated to public safety in Collier County, Florida, passed away August 22 at a Cape Cod, Massachusetts, hospital after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Read full articleSilent Key: Max Thwaits III
September 22, 2022Max Thwaits III, the Essex County (New York) emergency services director, passed away September 19. Thwaits, of Au Sable Forks, was 40. He was a member of the APCO Atlantic Chapter.
Read full articleSilent Key: RoxAnn Brown
July 29, 2022APCO Life Member RoxAnn Brown passed away July 27 in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. She was retired from public safety communications and had been active in APCO before retirement. Services are pending.
Read full articleSilent Key: Todd A. Austin
May 12, 2022Todd A. Austin of Burbank, California, an APCO member and emergency communications center manager for the Los Angeles Police Department…
Read full articleSilent Key: Stephanie A. Kulowiec
April 22, 2022Brookfield Police Department public safety telecommunicator Stephanie A. Kulowiec of Brookfield, Connecticut, passed away on Sunday, April 17. Kulowiec was…
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