EMORY BRITTINGHAM

EMORY BRITTINGHAM

Emory Brittingham, former police chief and state magistrate died at age 82 in Lewes

Convalescent Home after a years illness.

He was one of the first city police officers to be graduated from the Delaware State Police

Academy in 1957. during his Lewes police service he designed new uniforms and adopted the

Great Seal of Lewes, England as the logo of the local police in Lewes Delaware. He was Lewes

chief from 1965 to 1968 when appointed a state magistrate from which he retire in 1983. He was

also a town commissioner.

At Fort Milles in 1944 to 1945 he was chief of the auxiliary military police unit and in 1941

to 1944 he was in a similar position at the duPont Nylon plant in Seaford.

He owed Britt's Restaurant in Lewes from 1948 to 1957.

Mr Brittingham was an Army veteran and served in Hawaii where he at one time guarded

Amelia Earhart's airplane, then while assigned to Manila he was on the Harbor Patrol.

Upon discharge in 1946 he came back to Lewes where his family had founded Lewes

Dairy which he joined.

He was a member of the Groome Methodist Church and a life member of the Fraternal

Order of Police, Sussex Lodge #2.

Surviving are Hazel downs Brittingham, his wife, a son Kim, six grand children and

four great grand children.

Burial was in Bethel Methodist Cemetery, Lewes.

Abstract Wilmington News Journal , January 27, 1998.