Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in peace, Officer Heddy. You deserve your divine reward.

May God comfort your family, friends, and fellow officers at this difficult time.

God bless and protect the Thin Blue Line that protects us all.

Private Citizen Kathryn Felts
Mother of & Family Member of Law Enforcement

July 6, 2017

RIP OFFICER Heddy. Thank you for your dedicated service and sacrifice to LE and for your service to our Nation in the USAF. May God be with your Family and all LE.

Former Trooper Ken R. Bays
Virginia State Police

July 6, 2017

Rest in Peace Officer Heddy. Thank you for your service. My thoughts and Prayers go out to your family, coworkers, and friends.

Wm Jean-Paul Rochat
Swiss Army, MP, Trafic & Escort Unit

July 6, 2017

May the good lord welcome you with open arms, for you have done your job well.

Chaplain Douglas J. Maykowski
Fraternal Order Of Police Lodge #187 Mt. Clemens Michigan.

July 5, 2017

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE AND SERVICE!

MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

Ret. TFC. Theresa Medcalf
Ga. State Patrol

July 5, 2017

Godspeed.

NT

July 5, 2017

MAY THE LORD COMFORT YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS AT THIS MOST DIFFICULT TIME.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
REST IN PEACE.

SERGEANT DAVID SHEETZ (RETIRED)
HPD & PCSO

July 5, 2017

Rest in peace brother, we have the watch now. Thank you for your many years of service to our nation and your community, you will not be forgotten. God bless the family, friends, and co-workers of Officer Heddy during this time of tragic and sudden loss.

Deputy Donnie Meaders
Seminole County (OK) S.O.

July 5, 2017

Rest in peace brother.

P.O. Frank PO FRANK JAMES TRABAKINO NYPD CMD PBBX

July 5, 2017

Hey my friend I know all is well up in Heaven. you had just relieved me that morning of June 17, 2017. I hung around in the Dorm with you like I had always done when we relieve one another. I didn't get the sad news until I arrived to work, pulling in the parking lot CO. Kilgore stop me before I could walk in and gave me the sad news. Hearing the news about you my friend really hit me like running into a brick wall. I did not want to work that night. Rest in Heavenly Peace my Friend I truly miss you.

CO. C. McGee
Escambia County Jail

July 5, 2017

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of our fellow colleague, as well as with the extended family of BOP.

Lieutenant
Federal Prisons

July 5, 2017

Officer Heddy, may you rest in peace our brother. You will never be forgotten.

Sgt Rich Eckert
Town of Chester PD

July 5, 2017

Officer Heddy, thank you for your service. You died trying to prevent another person from taking his life. May God watch over your family, friends, and fellow officers during this most difficult time! May God welcome you with open arms!

Civilian, RuthAnn Pratt Cross

July 5, 2017

As I walk through the valley of death I shall feel no evil as the Lord is with me always. As a Sheriffs Deputy I recently had triple bypass surgery, death was on my door step but god had different plans. Why ? we don't know but as a Marine Veteran, Deputy and 24 yrs with Cleveland,Ohio PD I firmly believe god takes us to heaven when he wants not when we want. God bless Officer Heddy,may he rest and may his family morn,my condolences and respect .

Patrol Officer #971
Cleveland, Ohio

July 5, 2017

In Honor of your Sacrifice and for your family and friends, I salute you as a HERO!

"The Badge"

He starts his shift each day
To respond to calls unknown.
He drives a marked patrol car.
A police officer he is known.

He's paid by the citizens' taxes
To make it safe on the streets.
But he usually has a second job
'Cause a waitress has his salary beat.

Now he doesn't know a holiday
'Cause he works all year round.
And when Thanksgiving and Christmas finally arrive
At his home he cannot be found.

He's cursed and assaulted often,
The one who’s blood runs blue.
He seldom ever gets a thanks,
To some he's just a fool.

His friends are always other cops
'Cause people just don't understand
That underneath his badge and gun,
He's just another man.

He knows there might not be a tomorrow
In this world of drugs and crime.
And he gets so mad at the court system
'Cause the crooks don't get any time.

And each day when he leaves for work,
He prays to God above.
Please bring me home after my shift
So I can see the ones I love.

But tonight he stops a speeding car,
He's alone down this ole' highway.
It's just a little traffic infraction.
He does it everyday.

Well, he walks up to the driver's window,
And his badge is shining bright.
He asked the guy for a driver's license,
When a shot rang through the night.

Yes, the bullet hit its mark,
Striking the officer in the chest.
But the Department's budget didn't buy
Each officer a bullet-proof vest.

So he lay on the ground bleeding.
His blood wasn't blue - His blood was red.
And briefly he thought of his loved ones
'Cause in a moment the officer was dead.

In the news they told the story
Of how this officer had died.
And some who listened cared less,
But those who loved him cried.

Well, they buried him in uniform
With his badge pinned on his chest.
He even had his revolver,
He died doing his best.

Written By:
David L. Bell

Richland County Sheriff's Department
Columbia, South Carolina
Used with Special Permission of the Author
Copyright © 1993 - All Rights Reserved
and may not be duplicated without permission
Investigator David L Bell
Richland County Sheriff's Dept., Columbia, SC

Investigator David L Bell (Retired)
Richland County Sheriff's Dept., Columbia, SC

July 5, 2017

Rest in peace.

Lt. Jim Russo

July 5, 2017

CO Heddy,
May you rest in Heavenly Peace. May your family be forever watched over and blessed. May your friends and colleagues find comfort. Please watch over us from on high.
We will see you again dear Sir.
Thank you for your service. I will never forget your sacrifice or the sacrifice of your family.
Greater Love Hath No Man....
Prayers for all involved.

Kristi
Surviving Daughter of Special Agent J. Robert Porter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
E.O.W. 8/9/79

July 5, 2017

R.I.P. BROTHER Heddy!!!

Nebraska Police Officer

July 5, 2017

Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Rest In Peace Officer Heddy. Our deepest heartfelt condolences to all of your family, friends, and brothers and sisters at Escambia County Department of Corrections.

U.S. Postal Inspector Scott Horne
U.S. Postal Inspection Service

July 5, 2017

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

Abraham Lincoln

Sergeant E. Kemmer #142
Nevada Highway Patrol

July 5, 2017

RIP Brother

Deputy Anita Price
Bexar County Sheriff's Office, San Antonio, Texas

July 5, 2017

He was a good co-worker. Always had my back (and the other officers). RIP. Brother

DD 1st Class F.Dippel
Co-worker

July 5, 2017

Heroes live forever. Prayers to family and friends.

BLR
Retired telecommunicator

July 5, 2017

Thank you for your service.

Dmytro Goloborodko

July 5, 2017

On behalf of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office in Klamath Falls Oregon, we send our sincerest sympathy on the recent loss of your Corrections Officer, Joe William Heddy Jr., in the line of duty. A Corrections Officer position is a very dangerous job and the men and women who perform this duty are very important on what they do. Corrections Officer Heddy with his bravery and courage to protect and serve his community and country has not gone unnoticed.

Sheriff Chris Kaber
Klamath County Sheriff's Office

July 5, 2017