For decades, the Kentucky grave of a Utah corrections officer stabbed to death at the prison by an inmate remained unmarked. But not anymore.
Members of the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial tracked down the spot in Frankfurt, Ky., where Officer Edwin J. Fisher is buried, installed a headstone and held a brief on-site ceremony for him Wednesday.
Fisher was 58 years old when he was killed June 1, 1955. He was born in Kentucky and came to Utah after retiring from the U.S. Navy, according to ULEM historian Robert Kirby.
As a widower with no children, Deputy Warden Jerry Pope said, it’s likely there was no one to pay for a headstone at the time Fisher was buried in a plot next to his first wife.