{"id":2037,"date":"2025-10-14T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2037\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:36:11","slug":"texas-parks-and-wildlife-official-from-east-texas-dies-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2037\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Parks and Wildlife official from East Texas dies of cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KETK<\/a>) \u2013 The Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s is mourning the loss of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department assistant commander Chad Gartman, who died of cancer on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Gartman, who was 52-years-old, had a lengthy 31-year career in law enforcement and became a Texas Peace Officer after he graduated from the Angelina College Police Academy in 1994. He served as a deputy constable in Nacogdoches County for almost six years before he joined the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and started patrolling in East Texas.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of the Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Offfice.<\/p>\n

According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Gartman became assistant commander of the TPWD in 2016. He managed vehicle acquisitions and fleet maintenance for the over 650 Texas Game Wardens vehicles across the state.<\/p>\n

Gartman\u2019s and his wife Ashley had two sons together. Ashley\u2019s father is retired Angelina County Sheriff Kent Henson.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease join us in lifting up Assistant Commander Gartman\u2019s family, friends and fellow law enforcement officers in prayer during this time of loss,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said on Monday. \u201cAs Sheriff Henson stated, \u2018God is in control!\u2019 Always has been. Always will be. Thank you for your service, Chad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KETK) \u2013 The Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s is mourning the loss of Texas Parks and Wildlife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2605,2607,2602,2604,2608,2606,27,29,28,2603],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-angelina-county","tag-assistant-commander","tag-chad-gartman","tag-east-texas","tag-ketk","tag-nacogdoches-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-parks-and-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}