Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Special Officer John J. Ellis

Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department, Railroad Police

End of Watch Thursday, September 26, 1918

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Reflections for Special Officer John J. Ellis

No passage of time will ever erase your service and sacrifice. Rest in peace always.

Detective Cpl/3 Steven Rizzo
Delaware State Police (Retired)

September 26, 2020

100 years ago when you died, The Pennsy was the greatest railroad in the world. Much has changed in the past century, and today there is no Pennsylvania Railroad. But your memory and honor lives on.

Stan Jefferson
Citizen of Arizona

September 26, 2018

Rest In Peace Brother LEO. Thank you and your family for your sacrifice and service to this country.

Officer Mike Robinson (Ret.)
Upland Police Dept. CA

September 26, 2018

Officer Ellis,
On today, the 100th anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice-not just as a Law Enforcement Officer but for our Country as well when you served with the USN.

Fair Winds And Following Seas

Anonymous
United States Border Patrol

September 26, 2018

Officer Ellis,
Sir, it has taken 95 years but you are finally being honored. I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice-not just as a LEO but for our Country as well when you served in the USN.

Fair Winds And Following Seas

Anonymous
United States Border Patrol

December 10, 2015

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

Euripides

Marshal Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

November 30, 2015

Officer Ellis, thank you for your service to our nation as a member of the United States Navy, and thank you also for helping to protect one of the reasons our nation is as great as it is, our railroads. You are truly a hero.

How tragic that a piece of dirt who only had to leave turned a minor event into a murder charge. Though the final fate of the beast who killed you, I am confident that he faced true justice, if not in this world, then in the next.

God Bless, Brother and may your rest forever be peaceful.

Ptl. Jim Leahy, Jr.
Harvard University Police Dept.

November 25, 2015

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