Deputy Sheriff
 
Harold Charles Voege Jr.
 
Ripley County Sheriff's Department
 
End of Watch: Sunday, June 16, 1991
 
Age: 30
 
Tour of Duty:
 
Cause of death: Vehicular, ATV
 
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On June 16, 1991, Deputy Harold Voege was killed in an ATV accident

Deputy Voege was killed in an ATV accident during a search for an elderly person. Deputy Voege had been participating in a search for an 90 year-old man who had walked away from his home and Deputy Voege was returning to a gathering point to rejoin the search group. Enroute to the gathering point, Deputy Voege attempted to turn on a downhill stretch of gravel road in a heavily wooded area and lost control of the ATV.

He was 30 years old and was survived by his wife. Interred: Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens.