TRIBUTE TO CST. TERRY TOMFOHR
REG # 25214
About three weeks after his arrival at Burnaby Detachment, Cst. Tomfohr responded to a complaint of unruly youths in the vicinity of Burnaby Mountain. While searching for the youths in the darkness, Cst. Tomfohr fell over a ravine to his death. The location of his death is not far from the present day site of Simon Fraser University.
Cst. Tomfohr’s funeral was the first of many services which I attended throughout my RCMP career. I did not know him but my memory of his death is vivid after all these years. I recall listening to the police radio of the search party throughout the night of his disappearance as I was on duty at Pattullo Bridge Detachment. I had been posted to Pattullo Bridge from Burnaby Detachment at the time that Cst. Tomfohr arrived from ‘Depot Div.
Cst. Terry Tomfohr is buried in the cemetery at Milk River which is south of Lethbridge, Alberta.
