Fallen Bucks Co. Police Officers Remembered With Project Blue Light Wreath

DOYLESTOWN, PA — Fallen Bucks County law enforcement officers are being remembered this holiday season with a Project Blue Light wreath hanging in the windows of the Bucks County Administration building in Doylestown.

Each year during the holiday season, Bucks County displays the wreath – adorned with blue lights and 16 white ornaments, one for each fallen officer – from the third-floor rotunda of the administration building.

“As we reflect this holiday season on the things we’re grateful for, we’ll be remembering the brave law enforcement officers who gave everything in service to their communities,” said Commissioner Chair Bob Harvie. “These 16 men – and we hope we never have to add another name to this list – laid down their lives for our benefit, and that sacrifice must never be taken for granted.”

Law enforcement officials from throughout Bucks County joined county officials on Tuesday for the annual Project Blue Light wreath lighting ceremony held each year in honor of law enforcement officers from Bucks County who lost their lives in the line of duty.

This year’s honor roll

• Pennsylvania State Deputy Constable Erwin Mondeau, 1898
• Pennsylvania State Constable Henry A. Kolbe, 1914
• Bucks County Sheriff Abram L. Kulp, 1927
• Quakertown Borough Police Officer Edward W. Shearer, 1936
• Dublin Borough Police Chief Eli M. Myers, 1965
• Bristol Township Police Detective George F. Stuckey, 1972
• Bensalem Township Police Officer James K. Armstrong, 1975
• Bensalem Township Police Officer Robert A. Yezzi, 1980
• Bucks County Deputy Sheriff Thomas A. Bateman, 1986
• Bucks County Deputy Sheriff George M. Warta, Jr., 1986
• Bucks County Ranger Stanley E. Flynn, 1993
• Plumstead Township Police Officer Joseph E. Hanusey III, 2002
• Newtown Borough Police Officer Brian S. Gregg, 2005
• Middletown Township Police Officer Christopher C. Jones, 2009
• Bucks County Ranger Thomas Booz, 2020
• Warrington Township K9 Officer Stephen C. Plum, 2022

Project Blue Light is a nationwide observance begun more than 30 years ago by Dolly Craig of Philadelphia.

In 1988, Craig placed two blue candle lights in the window of her home: one in honor of her son-in-law, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Gleason, killed in the line of duty 1986; and one for her daughter Pam, Gleason’s wife, who died in an auto crash in 1988. The couple had six children.

Craig wrote of her simple gesture to Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) an organization dedicated to families of fallen officers, which helped the idea take hold nationally