Officer Rolla L. Standau, Jr.

Officer Rolla L. Standau, Jr.
Memorial Date
11-29-1963

Officer Rolla Standau, age 22, had crossed the Holtsinger Bridge heading south on North Boulevard when a car hit his motorcycle head-on at Union Street and killed the patrolman of one and a half years.

Officer Standau, whose father and namesake also served as an officer, had been recommended for a Medal of Honor for saving a drowning man in the Hillsborough River.