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With more frequent and/or recent shootings during funeral services or funeral associated events, active shooter training courses are critical for funeral directors and funeral home staff. Basic awareness and knowledge are essential should an individual ever encounter or become faced with an active shooter situation. This course, presented by licensed funeral director, embalmer, and former Deputy Sheriff, Mr. Fred Workman will focus on civil response to active attacker events. Learn what an "Active Attack" is, how it presents itself, ways to recognize these possible events before they happen as well as what possible reactions one may have to the event. The course will detail the different types of attackers, risk factors and the use of historic data as to common locations these attacks may take place.
Wallace Fred Workman
Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer
Former Deputy Sheriff, Gallia County Sheriff’s Office
My name is Wallace Fred Workman, known as Fred, and I am a current Funeral Director and Embalmer in Gallipolis, Ohio. I am employed in McCoy-Moore Funeral Homes where I have been working for 10 years. While working in the funeral home, my wife and I went to Rio Grande University and Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, graduating both in 2016. I served my apprenticeship under the late Herbert Moore and received my dual license in 2017. My wife, Charlie, and I also started our own monument company, Workman Monuments, in 2018.
Before my journey into the funeral business, I was a full time Deputy Sheriff for Gallia County Sheriff’s Office from 2004 to 2013, when I maintained a part time position for the next three years before leaving the department while working in the funeral home and going to college. During my tenure with the sheriff’s department, I was a K-9 handler. My partner, Daron also known as “Bobo”, was a full bred German Shepherd, flown in from Germany. We spent many hours working together and made several large drug seizures. I was also part of the drug task force, which focused on southeast Ohio, and performed duties on the Hazmat Clandestine Lab Technician Team. I taught Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission Classes at Buckeye Hills where I worked with cadets as a driving instructor, firearms instructor, defensive tactics instructor, and communications instructor. I was part of the county SWAT team – in my years as a deputy, I worked in all facets except administration.
I have been asked many times why I chose to change my profession – to which I reply, “God had a sense of humor”! Honestly, I felt this profession chose me – this is not a choice – it is a calling.
In my free time, when I have it, I thoroughly enjoy golfing, riding my Harley, and traveling with my wife. Together, we raised four children, now all grown and “flown”. And, together, we work as Funeral Directors and Embalmers to help others during, what is to most, one of the most difficult times of their lives. As I mentioned before, this is my calling – not my profession. I believe I fulfilled my time as a deputy doing all the things I wanted to and was supposed to do. Now, my calling is in this field, one I am honored and proud to partake – and know that I may not comfort and help everyone, yet if I can comfort or help just one, I am doing what I have been called to do.
Long Shots, 2315 S. County Road 25A, Troy, OH 45373