|  KCFD Members Who Died in Line of Duty  | 
     
 
   
 
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      Kansas City, MO Fire Department - Line Of Duty Deaths 
Research by Ray Elder, Historian, KC Fire Historical Society 
Updated April 2025 
 
	
		
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			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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