Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Our thoughts and prayers are with your family, friends and co-workers during this difficult time. Your service and ultimate sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Thomas H. Kelly Jr.
Assistant Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (ASAC)
New York Field Office
Federal Air Marshal Service

August 16, 2021

A true hero fights to the end. Thank you for your service, your example of bravery and your integrity. True to the end. Rest in Peace Brother Proxmire.

Chief Lee Hancock
Lanesville Indiana Police Dept.

August 16, 2021

Rest Now Brother

Officer Shannon Yates
Collins Police Department (MS)

August 16, 2021

You will not be forgotten.

Senior Patrol Officer T.A. Hunt II
Blowing Rock Police

August 16, 2021

Going to miss our conversations in the halls and garage at the Sheriff's Office. RIP. You passed doing the job you loved. Just know you are loved and mourned by so many.

(Former) Deputy Straka
Kalamazoo County Sheriff

August 16, 2021

Thank you for your service.

Dmytro Goloborodko

August 16, 2021

Requiescat in Paces

Sergeants Mike O'Connor
Branford CT PD

August 16, 2021

Rest in peace, Deputy Proxmire. 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

August 16, 2021

Rest in Peace my brother.

Captain Bernard Flint
Department of Defense Police Division

August 15, 2021

I am sad to learn of the passing of a Brother and Hero in Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire. I believe our Heavenly Father has welcomed him home into his loving arms where he will now patrol the Golden Streets of Heaven. May the Lord deliver Blessings, Comfort and Peace to his Family, Friends and all Members of the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office, Michigan.

Retired, T W Martinez
FOP member
State of New Mexico/JJS

August 15, 2021

Rest easy brother thank you for your service. May your sacrifice or memory never fade.

Jerry Matalone #8046 (Retired)
Des Moines Iowa Police Department

August 15, 2021

may HIS light shine perpetual upon his face

Chief Jim Allen (retired)
Mobile County Child Support

August 15, 2021

Rest In Peace Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire! Thank you for your service with the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office in Michigan. We are all thankful to you for your service, your devotion and your sacrifices, and to your family and friends for their sacrifices. Our hearts break for your family during this tragedy, and we want them to know that you will never be forgotten! Our thoughts and Prayers go out to the rest of your family and to all of your sisters and brothers in Blue that protect us. God bless you all!! (Matthew5:9)

Kelly & Eddie King

August 15, 2021

Deputy Sheriff Ryan Proxmire, thank you for your service and sacrifice. May God watch after you, your family and all members of the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office. You are in our thoughts and prayers. Rest easy sir, we have the watch from here.

Reserve Deputy Brian Jacobsen
Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office

August 15, 2021

God bless you Deputy Ryan Proxmire, for your service and sacrifice. Thoughts and prayers go out to your family and friends, and to your brothers and sisters from the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office. Rest in Peace Brother.

Officer Jim Drabos (Retired)
San Gabriel (CA) Police Department

August 15, 2021

Rest easy brother, prayers out to your family both blood and blue…

Officer Glenn McGloughlin
King County Jail (Retired)

August 15, 2021

Rest brother and may God bless you.

Lt john g Brenner(ret)
Bridgeport police. Fbina 210

August 15, 2021

God bless you and your family. Where you're at now there's no pain or sorrow.
Rest in Peace !
John 3;16

Ret. Sgt. Joe Covington
Corpus Christi Police Department

August 15, 2021

Heavenly Father, the sudden and violent death of Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire, of the Kalamazoo County MI Sheriff's Office, has filled his family’s eyes with tears and their hearts with sorrow. We are distressed by the mysteries of Your providence. As Your child we want so much to say, “Not my will, but Yours be done,” but at times we find it difficult to do. Forgive us and help us. We pray by Your Holy Spirit, to accept Your ways as always best. Apply to these wounded hearts the healing touch of Your precious promises, and let them soon experience its power. Teach us not to mourn as those who have no hope. Wipe away the tears from our eyes that we may be able to see through the mist, beyond death and grave, to the Resurrection and Life assured by the glorious victory of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, over death and the grave. May the passing of Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire remind us that we, too, are but pilgrims and strangers on earth. Grant us the grace to love less and less the things that are material and temporal, and to love more and more the things that are spiritual and eternal. Teach us to number our days and to apply our heart to the wisdom taught by Jesus Christ, that He is the Way and the Truth and the Life, and that no one comes to You but by Him. In Your Mighty and Holy Name, I pray. Amen.

Chaplain Steven R. Closs, D.Div, MSBS, RPP, NCCA
Ordained / Licensed Independent Christian Clergy
Peace Officers Prayer Ministry
Merrimack, NH 03054

Captain Steven R. Closs (Ret.)
Nashua NH Police Department

August 15, 2021

My family and I would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family, friends, and fellow coworkers of Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire during this difficult time. May they find comfort and support from those around them. May happy moments from the past bring forth precious memories to cherish for a lifetime. May God help heal their aching hearts. Thank you for your service and may you rest in peace Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire.

Gail. M. Pabst
Aunt of fallen Detroit P.O. Jennifer Fettig eow 2/16/04

August 15, 2021

My family and I would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family, friends, and fellow coworkers of Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire during this difficult time. May they find comfort and support from those around them. May happy moments from the past bring forth precious memories to cherish for a lifetime. May God help heal their aching hearts. Thank you for your service and may you rest in peace Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire.

Gail. M. Pabst
Aunt of fallen Detroit P.O. Jennifer Fettig eow 2/16/04

August 15, 2021

It's difficult to express my sorrow. Even though I didn't know you, I know many of your brothers and sisters wearing brown and blue in your agency and jurisdiction and I cannot overstate how deeply you are already missed by those who worked with you. Rest in Peace, your brothers and sisters have the watch from here.

Ian J. Beuckelaere
Ass't Commonwealth's Attorney
Halifax County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office
Former Special Deputy, Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office

August 15, 2021

On behalf of POINT 27, we would like to offer condolences for Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proximire. Please know we are eternally grateful for Ryan’s service and his ultimate sacrifice.

To honor Deputy Sheriff Proximire, POINT 27 sent 27 Thin Blue Line Dog Tag Necklaces, engraved with “Blessed are the Peacemakers for they will be called children of God” Matthew 5:9, to the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office in Kalamazoo, Michigan for Ryan’s partner and fellow deputies. POINT 27 sent a Folded Flag Necklace engraved with “Greater Love has no one than this; than to lay down one’s life for one’s friend” John 15:13 for Deputy Sheriff Ryan J. Proxmire’s family.

POINT 27 is a Non-Profit organization with a mission to strengthen and encourage members of the Armed Forces, First Responders, and their families, by sharing scripture on Dog Tags and Jewelry called Shields of Strength.

We will never forget and we are forever grateful.

Respectfully,

Colonel David Dodd,
United States Army Retired
Executive Director-POINT 27

Detective Jerry M. Rhodes (Retired)
Dallas Police Department-Reserve Division
POINT 27 National Outreach Coordinator
Law Enforcement Liaison
[email protected]
214-908-2617

Detective Jerry M. Rhodes (Retired)
Dallas Police Department Reserve Division
POINT 27- National Out Reach Coordinator
Law Enforcement Liaison

August 15, 2021

D.S.Proxmire, How shocking and horrible to lose one of Michigan's finest. Thank you for giving your life to make this a safer place. You were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice and take a bullet for any one of us civilians. May God reward you richly in heaven and may He bless your family with comfort, peace, safety and prosperity. They are indeed very special people too and need to be seen as such. You are the ultimate hero. Again, blessings.

Susan King
Civilain Supporter, Michigan

August 15, 2021

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9

Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

August 15, 2021