MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Two Alabama police officers who were killed in the line of duty in the 1920s are finally getting markers for the graves.
Donations from a funeral home and cemetery will be used to mark the resting spots of officers Christopher M. Dean and W.F. “Happy” Murphy, according to a statement from the Mobile Police Department.
Dean was shot to death in 1926 while checking on some suspicious men, and Murphy was fatally wounded after stopping a speeding vehicle in 1929.
The department said relatives of neither man could afford grave markers. An organization that honors police, Family of the Fallen, recently arranged donations from Pine Crest Funeral Home and Friends of Magnolia Cemetery.
A ceremony is planned for Friday afternoon, and a nephew of Dean planned to attend.
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