Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Thank you so much for your service and your dedication to San Quentin State your Duty and service will be forever in our memories.❤️

jeffrey dabranca
CDCR/ SAN QUENTIN/ 27 YEARS!

March 23, 2024

Well Woodard And Johnson are still staying in..Their appeals got dismissed. Let's hope all this manipulating supposed confessions of a lifer to protect Jarvis Masters will be brought to light as a blatant lie. I got your back! I love and miss you.

Marjorie (retired CDCR)
Father

June 8, 2023

My only brother, Peter H Wolfe, was murdered October 28, 1984, about seven months before your father was murdered. I was 29 years old, you were 14. I am deeply moved when you write "the pain never gets easier." Deep prayer, in the presence of others more deeply experienced in prayer, did help ease my pain. Do you have such a spiritual resource or teacher? If not, may s/he appear to you. May your pain ease.
Kind and sincere blessings - John R Wolfe

former volunteer rescue & recovery d
Alameda County Sheriff's Department

January 30, 2023

Another year. Now we are going to court again to make sure they stay locked up. The pain never gets easier. Just easier to hide the pain. I'm retired n lasted longer than you, but still feel like your lil girl. I miss you Dad..

Marj
Family

June 9, 2022

Well I'm retired now! I made it. So now I'm gonna join the real circus! Love u dad

Marj
FCDCR

June 8, 2021

It your birthday today . Honoring you in my thoughts today and all officers that put on their badge of honor. God bless them all and their families and your family too Sgt Burchfield.

CO Nelson
Department of Correction

June 8, 2021

Rest in peace Sergeant Burchfield we may have crossed paths in 1974 at San Quentin

Corrections officer Thomas Norman
San Quentin 1974

December 5, 2020

God Bless and know that you will never be forgotten, as you left us a true hero. Thank you for your service.

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

June 8, 2020

I’ve worked at San Quentin for 21 years, and I’m considering retirement at 50 in a year from now. I know your story, and it crosses my mind every time I see the inmate being escorted across the yard. U were taken from this world to soon. Rest n peace!

Prison Gaurd/Correctional officer
California department of corrections SQ

May 2, 2020

Dear Sergeant Burchfield. I didn't know you, but I do know the story handed down for decades about your murder. Your name and memory didn't end on that day. Your name is very much alive and circulating in courts and conversations and echoing the walls of San Quentin State Prison, all for the reason that there is a man on death row accused of sharpening the tool that was used to murder you. After they sentenced him to death for this supposed act, one year later, the real monster stepped up and confessed to the act of sharpening the deadly tool. However, the court said, "once a liar, always a liar," and denied the confession. The innocent man on death row has been living there for 29 years and every day your memory lives with him and on the tongues of his attorney's, organizations, professors, college library books, two books this accused man has authored, and those who share a part in his life. In essence, you are still very much alive in San Quentin State Prison and throughout many parts of the world. The number of times your name has been spoken since that fatal day, I'm sure, has surpassed millions. Sergeant Burchfield, your death became historical.

roze albina ches
connected by research and writing

September 29, 2019

Another year..Miss you dad

Marjorie
Daughter

June 9, 2019

Rest in peace Sergeant Burchfield.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 5, 2019

It’s 11:23 I’m going thru the reflection about you and I’m sad tonight. You made me feel good about myself. This job met a lot to me my sister Glenda knew this and told Sgt Hoen I was trying not to miss any days for 5 years to make Sergeant and I was told to leave San Quentin. I also told Union Rep DD Taylor I didn’t want to be put in the tower that I wanted to work with the officers. Things were going on at San Quentin that I felt was unsafe. I reported this and I also know they wanted me to leave San Quentin but not you . You had me go thru fire training and I did. I was working the fire house when you were murdered. But I was told to Transfer to Vacaville Prison because I said they needed more females for the officers. I really wanted to marry a Correctional Officer Hatch is here in Florida I wish he would of asked me out back then. I didn’t want to be put in the tower but I wanted to work with the officers but that didn’t happen. I transferred to Vacaville Prison and Sgt Hoen told me there were more females there . Officers were nice to me there except Sgt Edwards Sgt Hoen and Judy smith

C/O Nelson, M
Department of Corrections Officer

April 30, 2019

I was a police officer at this penitentiary 1974 I don't recognize Sergeant Burchfield I don't remember him I got the hell out of there I'm 72 now would have been nice to have work there 40 years and retire with a full pension I didn't have the stomach for it rest in peace Sergeant Burchfield

Thomas Norman
California Department of Correction in San Quentin

April 2, 2019

I read again your Memorial Page and just noticed your birthday was on the same day I had asked my husband early in the morning to marry me after several occasions of him asking me. I now know also your wife Barbara has gone to join you. I wish I could of met and talked to her.

C/O Nelson
Department of Corrections

October 13, 2018

My deepest condolences to the family of this honorable man and my upmost respect .

C/O Eva Anglea
CDCR , retired Correctional Officer

October 4, 2018

Still reflecting about you Sgt Burchfield and honoring you in my thoughts. I always remember the day you told me to go home your mustache was a little longer then the picture I see and I remember you setting at the desk with both your arms on the desk in front . I think maybe I will try and draw a picture of that moment. C/O M Nelson

Sgt Howell Burchfield - San Quentin A Sgt that always told me I was doing a good job. He I believe had Officer ask me to go through fire training Sch

June 9, 2018

Rest In Peace Brother LEO. You are honored and remembered on the 33rd anniversary of your EOW.

Officer Mike Robinson (Ret)
Upland Police Dept. CA

June 8, 2018

When I last spoke with Officer Burchfield he was a fellow Correctional Officer at San Quentin ! I believe he was murdered due to a lack of protective gun rail coverage ! This problem is in my opinion an epidemic today, throughout our entire Penitentiary System ! Officer Richard A Ochoa who also fell to the Shank in San Quentin 9 years before Officer Burchfield's homicide ! Richard also died in a DEAD SPOT ( area without protective gun coverage ) ! It is my understanding that Howard was murdered on the second tier of C section ? He should of had " SOME " protective gun rail coverage from the C Section unit gun men ? Where exactly was this Unit G Man in question ??? If he was covering Howard while he was shacking down a cell in C section ? This gun Man could have popped a cap down into the cell probably saving the life of Officer Burchfield ?

Former San Quentin Correctional Officer
Friend

August 3, 2017

After 32 years your passing has not been forgotten by our Department.

Rest in Peace Sir.

Sergeant M. Fontaine
California Department of Corrections

June 8, 2017

I miss you.

Marj

June 8, 2017

Lord, when it’s time to go inside,
That place of steel and stone.
I pray that you will keep me safe,
So I won’t walk alone.
Help me to do my duty,
Please watch me on my rounds.
Amongst those perilous places
And slamming steel door sounds.
God, Keep my fellow Officers
Well and free from harm.
Let them know I’ll be there too,
Whenever there’s alarm.
Above all when I walk my beat,
No matter where I roam.
Let me go back whence I came,
To family and home.

RIP We have the watch now

Correctional Officer 84804
California Dept.Of Corrections

July 5, 2016

TO SGT BURCH FIELD'S MEMORY AND HIS FAMILY, ITS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HOWELL WAS TAKEN IN SUCH A VIOLENT ACT BY ANIMALS ON THIS DAY IN 1985. WE REMEMBER A HERO TODAY HE IS GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN BY HIS SACRIFICE SERVING AS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER.

C/O CHIRICHELLO L CERT/HONOR GUARD
LANCASTER PRISON PA

June 8, 2016

"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

September 18, 2015

It's been 30 years, seems like yesterday.San Quentin Officers will never forget !

Correctional Officer
CDC SQ

June 9, 2015