“It just means a lot to always know that they keep their word when they said they’ll never be forgotten,” she said on Wednesday morning.
At the annual Utah Law Enforcement Memorial Service, people remember her and the sacrifice she and her family have made. They ask how her son — now 11 and getting taller than her — is doing. She has attended the memorial service every May since she her husband, Draper police Sgt. Derek Johnson, was fatally shot in 2013.
“I believe that the gatherings of this memorial aren’t to listen to speakers, but rather to gather in association with people who have lost so much and given so much.