Edina Mourns Loss of Police Officer Steve Stroh: 2012 in Review

Edina Patch covered a lot of different stories, topics and events throughout 2012. That said, there were a few that stood out as the most interesting, important, touching or possibly infamous to our readers.

And as we near the end of 2012, we're looking back at those articles. The following is one of those stories.

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Sgt. Steve Stroh, a 25-year veteran at the Edina Police Department, passed away over the weekend following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Stroh, 47, had been fighting Multiple Myeloma—a cancer which attacks plasma cells in the bone marrow—for more than four years.

Stroh passed away at 12:07 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 25. According to a post on his CaringBridge site, he spent his last hours surrounded by those he loved the most.

Chief of Police Jeff Long remembers a discussion he and Stroh had a few weeks ago, where Stroh was asking Long about some things going on in his life.

"He was asking me about some things I had going on at the time and I told him I felt kind of bad talking about it in the middle of his illness," Long recalled. "All he said to me was, 'That's what friends are for.' That's the kind of guy Steve was."

Read the remainder of the story here.

Stroh's memory lives on in the Edina Police Department, where officers recently took part in Movember as a way of honoring their departed friend.

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