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In memory of:

Constable Derek Thomas Ivany

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 25165
Age: 24
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Birth: December 23, 1946 Grand Falls
Enlistment: October 11, 1966
Death: June 25, 1971 St. Arthur, New Brunswick
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Cst. Ivany was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland. He loved sports, the outdoors, and spent much of his free time hunting, fishing and playing hockey. Cst. Ivany’s service was all in New Brunswick. On the night of his death, he was responding to a call of a shooting. He caught his outside wheels on the loose gravel of the shoulder causing the car to go out of control. Cst. Ivany was married to Elaine who had just lost a child a week before his death. Cst. Ivany is buried in the Anglican Cemetery at Grand Falls, NL.

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Page 144 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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