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Year Honored
2002
Honoree
Marsha K Rainey
Agency
Pike County Ambulance Service
Agency City
Jasper
Agency State
IN
Last Call
4/18/01
Cause of Death
Victim of Violence
Biography
It is rough at times, however, she loved her job in Emergency Medical Services. This statement was made by Marsha's father-in-law shortly before her death. The profession is one that deals with pain and suffering, one that most decide not to enter. It is a career of hope, of willingness, and of courage. A career that most admit clearly chooses the person rather than the other way around. This is the field of emergency medical services and at times it can be rough. But on those good days when you realize something you did helped save someone, that's when you realize you are in the right place, and what you were cut out to be.<br /> <br /> Marsha Rainey, 44, lost her life violently in a double homicide along side her partner as they pulled routine duty command on the night of April 18, 2001. Shot at close range, she never had a chance to fight back unlike the many others she had helped in her more than twenty years of service as a paramedic.<br /> <br /> Mrs. Rainey had been an advanced emergency medical technician for Pike County EMS of Jasper, Indiana since 1979. "Marsha was a very dedicated and caring individual. She truly cared about her patient and her family. She was also very active in her church," stated Director Susan Henke. "It is bad enough to lose one, but to lose two; they will be missed" she stated.<br /> <br /> "She was always a very nice person and very pleasant, " stated Mayor Randy Harris. "I never heard anything negative about Mrs. Rainey. It is sure a tragedy." Tragedy is the fitting word to describe the unnecessary savagery that took the life of Mrs. Rainey.<br /> <br /> Honored 2002