Funeral arrangements for Deputy First Class William H. Beebe Jr., the first Harford County sheriff’s deputy to die in the line of duty in more than 100 years, were announced Wednesday by the Sheriff?s Office.
A viewing for Beebe will be held noon to 5 p.m. today at McComas Funeral Home in Abingdon. Members of the public are welcome to pay their respects.
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Friday at Saint Ignatius Church in Hickory.
Beebe will be interred at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium immediately following the memorial service, according to a news release issued by the Sheriff?s Office.
Beebe was killed Monday night when his patrol car ran off a portion of Montrose Way in Abingdon, coming to rest at the bottom of a 60-yard embankment in a small tributary of the Winters Run. He was responding to a domestic dispute call where a woman was threatening suicide.
Residents in the area noticed Beebe?s vehicle in the ravine and called for help.
During a news conference Tuesday, Sheriff R. Thomas Golding said there were no witnesses to the accident.
After fellow deputies and paramedics with the Abingdon Volunteer Fire Company worked at the scene to save Beebe, who was found to be in cardiac arrest, he was taken to the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, where he was pronounced dead.
As of Wednesday, accident investigators with the Sheriff?s Office were still trying to determine what caused Beebe?s vehicle to leave the roadway.
Golding said Tuesday that even after the investigation is completed, Beebe?s death might be nothing more than a “tragic accident.”
The Sheriff?s Office is cautioning the public to be aware of high traffic congestion in the Hickory area and along the procession route to Dulaney Valley Memorial
Gardens.
