Second Regular Session
Sixty-first General Assembly
LLS NO. R980919.01 JAG
STATE OF COLORADO
BY REPRESENTATIVES Gotlieb and Pfiffner;
also SENATOR Wham.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-1032
WHEREAS, By the Will of Divine Providence, Denver
Police Officer Bruce VanderJagt departed this life on November
12, 1997, at the age of fortyseven; and
WHEREAS, Officer VanderJagt was slain in the line
of duty by a suspect with a long history of criminal behavior;
and
WHEREAS, Prior to becoming a Denver Police Officer,
Officer VanderJagt served his country as a member of the United
States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; and
WHEREAS, Officer VanderJagt served the Denver community
as a Denver Police Officer for eleven years and twice received
the Denver Police Department's Distinguished Service Cross; and
WHEREAS, Officer VanderJagt was an intelligent and
a thoughtful man who relished intellectual challenges and earned
a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder
less than a year before becoming the fiftyeighth Denver
Police Officer to give his life in the line of duty; and
WHEREAS, Officer VanderJagt was an avid weight lifter
whose commitment to physical fitness matched his passion for intellectual
development and academic achievement; and
WHEREAS, Officer VanderJagt left a wife, Anna Marie
VanderJagt, a daughter, Hayley VanderJagt, and many other loving
relatives and friends to carry on his memory; and
WHEREAS, Officer VanderJagt fell while serving the
people of Denver and the State of Colorado, and his memory deserves
their gratitude; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives
of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly of the State of Colorado,
the Senate concurring herein:
That, in the untimely passing of Officer Bruce VanderJagt,
the people of Denver and of the State of Colorado have lost an
outstanding citizen and a devoted public servant, and that we,
the members of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly, do hereby
extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy to the members of his family
and pay tribute to a man who served his city and state well and
faithfully.
Be It Further Resolved,
That copies of this resolution be sent to Officer VanderJagt's
widow, Anna Marie VanderJagt, and his daughter, Hayley VanderJagt,
as well as to Denver Police Chief David Michaud.