ELLEFONTAINE XAMINER B E Vol. 130 Friday, July 9, 2021 No. 174 AVAILABLE DAILY ONLINE @ examiner.org Tunnel to Towers Foundation pays off Comstock family’s mortgage BY THE EXAMINER STAFF worry about losing her and I are blessed to see home. my husband’s sacrifice be Representatives from “I am honored and so remembered,” she said. the Tunnel to Towers grateful for the blessing In observance of Foundation recently that you have given to my Independence Day, announced that that family. Our home is truly Tunnel to Towers has sat- organization has paid off our sanctuary and has isfied the mortgages on the mortgages on the been a sense of comfort the homes of 19 fallen homes of two fallen Ohio to me since losing my first responders ensuring first responders, husband. the families they left Bellefontaine Police “This home was our behind can stay in their Officer Craig Comstock dream home and after he homes without the finan- and Cleveland Police passed, I was sure I would cial burden of a mort- Officer Vu Nguyen. have to sell it to keep us gage. Officer Comstock afloat. Your great organi- The Tunnel to Towers passed away unexpected- zation made it possible Foundation’s Fallen First ly on April 10, 2020, at for us to keep our home. Responder Program pays home in his sleep. He There are no words to off the mortgages for fam- served his community as describe how thankful I ilies with young children a police officer for nearly am.” of fallen active duty law 18 years and left behind Cleveland Police enforcement officers and his wife, Michele, and Officer Nguyen passed firefighters. their two children, Cole away July 6, 2018, days “This Independence Family members of the late Bellefontaine Police Department Officer Craig Comstock, and Carisse. after collapsing during a Day, Tunnel to Towers is including his wife, Michele Comstock, and two children, Cole and Carisse, are joined by The 1995 Benjamin training exercise. He was delivering financial inde- members of the police department in celebrating the pay off of the family’s mortgage by pendence to the families (SUBMITTED PHOTO) Logan High School gradu- a 20-year law enforce- the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. of fallen first responders ate worked as a narcotics ment veteran, who left by paying off the mort- dation’s 20th Anniversary Stephen Siller, who laid For more information detective for the last nine behind his wife, Holli, gages on the homes of and to mark 20 years of down his life to save oth- on Tunnel to Towers’ years of his tenure. He and two daughters. these heroes. We cannot “Doing Good,” the organ- ers on September 11, mission to support received the department’s “My family and I replace the loss of a hus- ization has promised to 2001. For 20 years the America’s veterans, fallen Officer of the Year in would like to thank you band and father, but we deliver 200 mortgage pay- Foundation has support- first responders and Gold 2013, and again as a from the bottom of our can make sure these fam- offs or mortgage-free ed our nation’s first Star families, visit T2T.org posthumous honor in hearts. It is impossible to ilies can stay in the place homes across the country responders, veterans, and and consider donating 2020. fully express in words they called home,” said by the end of the year. their families by provid- $11 per month. Follow In a private ceremony, what a blessing this is to Tunnel to Towers The Tunnel to Towers ing these heroes and the Tunnel to Towers on Tunnel to Towers me and my children. It Chairman and CEO Frank Foundation is dedicated families they leave behind Facebook, Twitter and informed Mrs. Comstock feels like a huge weight Siller. to honoring the sacrifice with mortgage-free Instagram at she will never have to was lifted... My children This year is the foun- of FDNY Firefighter homes. @Tunnel2Towers. eMail: [email protected] BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER ONLINE @ examiner.org HUBBARD PUBLISHING CO. Local & State PO Box 40 • Bellefontaine, OH 43311 An independent daily newspa- per Founded in 1891 by E.O. & H.K. Hubbard Issued daily except Sunday at n BELLEFONTAINE BEAT 127 E. Chillicothe Ave. MEMBER OF THE: POLICE & FIRE Ohio Newspaper Association and Two face domestic repeatedly kicked the side dri- Gianna M. 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An officer on patrol on Main He told officers he didn’t Option 1 Reihart claimed she was dis- Nate Smith..........................................1118 227 N. Detroit St., was charged Street observed the violation think he hit anything. Monday with two counts of tracted by her 2-year-old Mandy Loehr......................................1116 near Water Avenue and turned Damaged to the car was heavy criminal damaging.