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ANPR Is the Association for All National Park Service Employees & Partners
Statement from ANPR President Stacy D. Allen, Jan. 5, 2012 On Jan. 1, 2012, at approximately 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, Margaret Anderson, a park ranger at Mount Rainier, was shot and killed in the line of duty. Ranger Anderson was killed when she attempted to stop a suspect who had failed to yield at a chain control check point. The suspect exited his vehicle and fatally shot Ranger Anderson before fleeing on foot. 
In honor of Ranger Anderson, the United States flag will be lowered to half-staff in the National Park Service’s Pacific West Region until sunset on the date of interment. All other regions of the NPS are authorized to lower flags to half-staff on the day of interment until sunset. Mourning bands are authorized for uniformed employees to honor the life and service of Ranger Anderson until sunset on Jan. 31, 2012. Ranger Anderson, 34, worked for the NPS since the summer of 2000 when she was a seasonal ranger at Bryce Canyon. She did her field training at Delaware Water Gap and worked at Chesapeake & Ohio Canal before transferring to Mount Rainier. She is survived by her husband, Eric, also a park ranger at Mount Rainier, and two young children. A memorial service will be held to celebrate her life at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, at Pacific Lutheran University, 12180 Park Ave. South, Tacoma, Washington. Arrangements are in progress and will be shared as they become available. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to KeyBank, P.O. Box 159, Eatonville, WA 98328. Checks should be made out to the Margaret Anderson Donation Account. Send all correspondence including requests for information, resource offers, and condolences to MountRainierInfo@gmail.com. Please send any photos of Margaret for a multimedia presentation at the memorial to the same e-mail. On behalf of the Association of National Park Rangers, we extend our deepest condolences to Margaret's family, the staff of Mount Rainier and all National Park Service employees of the Pacific West Region. We also have learned that our NPS family lost another colleague from the Pacific West Region. Diane Nicholson was leaving the PWR San Francisco Office Jan. 3, 2012, to head home from work when she collapsed on the sidewalk. A fellow NPS employee and a bystander started to perform CPR. Emergency medical personnel arrived quickly, but were unable to revive her. Diane was well known throughout the NPS, and greatly respected in her craft as regional curator for the PWR. Please know that ANPR stands ready to provide whatever support and assistance our colleagues in the Pacific West Region and Mount Rainier may need. We share and mourn their loss, and I ask everyone to keep all NPS employees of PWR in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with the loss of two dedicated coworkers. ANPR extends a warm and well-deserved "thank you" to all employed in performing the great multitude of jobs and tasks required to protect our nation's most special places and all who come to enjoy them. Respectfully, /s/ Stacy D. Allen
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