Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Officer Kimball,
On today, the 140th anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of Detroit. And to your Family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

R.I.P.
USBP

Anonymous
United States Border Patrol

October 5, 2023

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

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

October 5, 2020

Rest in peace Officer Kimball.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 12, 2020

Officer Kimball,
On today, the 133rd anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of Detroit. and to your Family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

R.I.P.
USBP

Anonymous
United States Border Patrol

October 5, 2016

Officer Kimball...your service will never be taken for granted; you died doing what you did best and that was keeping the streets of Detroit safe. Your heroic deeds will be forever remembered.

C.W. Jr.
citizen of Detroit

June 16, 2016

IN HONORE CASORUM
Gone, but not forgotten.

Sgt. T. J. Jones
Greater Cleveland Transit Police Department, Ohio

October 5, 2013

OFFICER KIMBALL: IN 1983 SEVERAL OF MY PARTNERS AND I OFTEN ATE LUNCH AT THE RESTAURANT AT bEAUBIEN AND JEFFERSON. WE DID NOT REALIZE THAT 100 YEARS EARLIER YOUR WATCH WAS ENDING ON THAT VERY CORNER. YOU WERE A HERO THEN AND YOU STILL ARE. REST IN PEACE.

D/Sgt. Bill Pendergast (ret.)
D.P.D.

July 20, 2010

Your heroism and service is honored today, the 126th anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.

Rest In Peace

Phyllis Loya

Anonymous

October 8, 2009

You are remembered today and thank you Sir for your service.

This writer is again disapointed that justice was not adequately served.

Pat Van DEn Berghe

October 14, 2007

Officer George C. Kimball would be my first cousin three times removed. I learned about him through my research in genealogy. His first wife was Adelaide L. Kimball of Algonac, Mi. I found his death notice and obituary in the newspaper and also an obituary about his daughter Grace which I copy below.
George C. Kimball, the policeman killed last Friday night while chasing a suspicious character, was buried in Elmwood cemetery yesterday afternoon. The funeral procession left the residence of the dead officer's family on Eighth St. about 2:30 o'clock, and went to Epiphany church, on Myrtle street near Trumbull Ave., where Rev. Fredereick Woolfenden preached a short sermon and read the service for the dead. Then the remains were placed in charge of Detroit Lodge No. 2 F & A M. who escorted it to the cemetery, where it was consigned to the earth in the masonic burial ground with the rites of the order. He was the son of Elisha Satterlee Kimball.
He married #2, Victoria Frances Higgins, may 1871.
They had a daughter GRACE she married a William Metzger and had a daughter Gretchen Elaine Metzger 26 Mo at time of her mothers death. George & Victoria also had two boys Frank Kimball and George Kimball.

DIES FROM SHOCK OF AN OPERATION
Mrs. W.E. Grace Metzger had suffered nearly two weeks with peritonitis.
Wife of Well-known Automobile Man fought Bravely to Remain with Her Baby Girl.
Mrs. Grace Kimball Metzger, aged 30, wife of William E. Metzger, of the Cadillac Motor Car Co., and a well-known automobile and bicycle dealer, passed away at her residence, 28 Longfellow aave from peritonitis at 12:45 o"clock Sunday morning, after an illness of nearly two weeks.
Last Wednesday Mrs. Metzger's condition seemed to be greatly improved and Dr. Walker P. Manton, 32 Adams Ave. west, who had been in attendance, believed that within a sshort time she would be able to leave her bed. Wednesday night, however, she suffered a severe relapse and thursday it was decided that an operation was the only thing that could save her life. It was perforned at the residence late Thursday afternoon. Although the patient made a strong fight for recovery, the shock proved too great for her weakened health. Funeral services will take place at 2:30 pm Tuesday from the residence. Interment will be in Woodlawn cemetery.
Mrs. Metzger, abesides her husband, leaves one daughter, Gretchen Elaine Metzger, 26 months old. She leaves also her moother, Mrs Victoria Kimball and two brothers, George and Frank Kimball. Mrs. Metzger was a member of several clubs in the city and was one of the active workers in the Trinity Episcopal church.

Leon J. Viger Retired
Clay Twp. Police Retired

March 19, 2007

I am the great great grand daughter of Officer Kimball. My husband is retired, after 33 years as a Deputy Sheriff with the San Mateo Co Sheriff Office in Ca. My brother is a Sgt. with the City of Fremont, Ca. Police Dept.
It is after reading the reflection posted by Sgt. Ray Downing, Ret. that I decided to give my own. I too, have wondering what it was like for the famiy George left behind. I know that young George, my ancestor, wandered. He went first to New York, the birth place of his father. Then he moved on to Indiana, where he married, on to Texas where his four children were born and his only son died. The youngest daughter was born in San Antonio, the place where THE ALAMO fell, and where is great uncle, and his namesake lost his life in 1836. From Galvaston, George and his young family sailed around the Horn, to San Francisco. George had become an aloholic by this time, and soon his wife filed for divorce. He was a painter by trade and lost his life when he fell while painting the Golden Gate Bridge in 1927. He died a very lonely man. The death of his father affected George greatly. I cry for the little boy who lost such a big part of his life. George was always looking for something. In retracing his father's roots, he did in hopes of finding some connection to the father who was lost to him. My children were lucky, they did not lose their father. They were not affected in the tragic way young George was. I pray everyday for my brother's safety and for all families who's loved ones are helping to keep the peace and safety of all Americans. I pray for those who were not so lucky, for those who have suffered the tragic consquences of loss of family as my ancestor's did. Belinda Caughey, La Honda CA.

Belinda Caughey

February 10, 2006

Officer Kimball, we remember you and thank you for your courage...We remember our own.

Fig

February 1, 2005

I stop by this website often after the death of two dear friends with the NCSHP (Troopers Calvin Taylor E.O.W. October 3, 2001 and Anthony Cogdill E.O.W. May 30, 2003). Unfortunately, I had to add the name of another friend recently. Deputy Jeffery Hewitt, Buncombe County (NC) Sheriff’s Department, E.O.W. April 4, 2004.

I want to honor all of those who gave their life in the line of duty. Although your death was many many years ago, you are still a hero.

God Bless the men and women who continue to serve their communities in our great Nation.

...Gone, but never Forgotten....

Marti Ingle (EMT-Paramedic)
Haywood Co EMS (NC)

April 9, 2004

I found Officer Kimball in the 1880 U. S. Census for the 8th ward in Detroit. At that time, his wife's name was Victoria Kimball, who was born in England, and they had three children, George, 9; Frank, 5; and Grace, 3 (ages in 1880).
How I wonder how they coped with the tragic loss of their father, and what happened to them.
You and your family are not forgotten, George Kimball.

Sgt. Ray Downing, Retired
Detroit Police Department

February 20, 2004