BDN Obituary on Patterson

Leroy Patterson, a 33-year veteran of the UMaine Department of Public Safety, died Wednesday morning of cancer at the age of 67, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. UMaine Police Chief Roland Lacroix told the BDN Patterson, who joined the department in 1977 and eventually rose to the rank of sergeant, touched a lot of lives while at UMaine and was seen as a father figure.

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