Officer Down Memorial Page

Officer Wozniak,

Thank you for your service...you are not forgotten after so many years. I hope your family has received the peace they deserve; I will pray for you and them.

-PSP Civilian

Anonymous
March 24, 2009

You are remembered today and thank you Sir for your service

Pat Van Den Berghe, Manchester, NH
Neighbors for a Better Manchester, NH
October 17, 2007

I don't exactly know how I came across this web site but something or someone must have led me to it. I was only six years old in 1969 and my dad was a police officer with the Detroit Lakes Police Department. I have only snippets of memory from the 20 years my father served but one of the most vivid was of another officer (I believe it was Everett Erickson) coming to our house to break the news to my father that "Fritz" as we knew Officer Wozniak, had died. My heart aches today at the rememberance of the look of sorrow in my fathers eyes. I remember going into the basement stairwell to cry and not be seen. I don't know today, if I was crying for Fritz, or for my father. I do know that they were friends as well as co-workers because my father talked of him often and although I don't recognize him from this picture, I remember him as a warm feeling in my heart and still grieve for him and my father today. I want the family to know that even though almost forty years later, all of the people who served with Fritz are gone from the force, there are still those of us who remember. My father retired from the police force and died in 1985. This is the second time in the last week that I have talked with someone about Fritz Wosniak. I think that is really strange when I probably had not thought about him in the last thirty years. THEY ARE WITH US, STILL.

Holly Baker (Bunnis)
daughter of a fellow officer
September 25, 2006

Rest in peace hero. Your job is done.

Wisconsin L.E.O.
August 31, 2006

On the anniversary of your death, I salute you for your service and honor you for your sacrifice.

Rest in peace. God bless.

October 20, 2004