Press Gazette
July 8, 1858
Police Sergeant
Dies Saturday
Rites to be Tuesday
For Elmer Kinzer
Elmer Ellsworth Kinzer, 54, a member of the Hillsboro Police Department for nearly nine years, collapsed and died suddenly of a heart attack at his home on North High Street Saturday about 4 A. M.
He had worked the previous day, July 4, on regular shift and was scheduled to work again Saturday as usual.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 P. M. at the Turner-Miller funeral home, with Rev. Carl Ling officiating and burial following in the New Market cemetery.
He was born in Highland County on Sept. 26, 1904, the son of Samuel and Viola Raglan Kinzer, and had resided here all his life.
He is survived by his wife, Stella; three sisters, Mrs. Delbert Page and Miss Thelma Kinzer both of Hillsboro, and Mrs. Hazel Hammer, of Xenia; and one brother, Almon Kinzer, of Xenia.
Friends may call at the funeral home.
Sgt. Kinzer first served on the local police department when the town was still in the village classification. He served 18 months during 1948 and 1949. He rejoined the force on Aug. 7, 1951, and had been with the department since that date. He was promoted to sergeant in 1955. He was second in command under Police Chief W. T. Woolard and was acting chief in his absence. He was also treasurer of Highland County Lodge No. 83. Fraternal Order of Police. The weekly teen age hop sponsored by the lodge at the Hillsboro Armory was postponed Saturday due to his death.
Prior to his first hitch on the force and during the interim between hitches, he was the in the filling station business with Bert Day at the corner of North High and Court Streets.