AKRON – The town of Akron is mourning the unexpected death of Town Marshal Tim Fleck. Fleck, 49, died at 9:12 p.m. Wednesday at Woodlawn Hospital Emergency Room, according to his obituary, which appears in today’s Times-Union on page 3A. “The community of Akron will have a great loss over there,” Fulton County Sheriff Walker Conley stated this morning. Conley said he worked with Fleck for a total of 23 years. Fleck served on the Akron Police Department for more than 25 years, and had been a deputy on the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department. “He was very friendly, very nice. It’s a small community over there (in Akron) and he knew everyone. He had a good demeanor about him, but he could change it if it was necessary. He was a good officer and it’s a big loss,” Conley said. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Department will cover the calls for the Akron Police Department. With Fleck’s passing, Akron only has one officer. Conley said his department has covered for Akron before and backed them up, and Akron would do the same for Fulton County. “We had a very good working relationship with him,” Conley said. “He was a heck of a nice person,” he said, and considered Fleck a co-worker since all officers are doing the same job. “He was really a great guy,” said Chad Hill, public information officer for the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department. “We worked with him on several occasions. He was just really easy to work with. Very cooperative. We’re really going to miss him.” Hill said because of Akron’s location near the Kosciusko County line, many times Fleck would assist the KCSD. “Since Akron’s so close to our county and it’s a far distance for us to travel down there, lots of times Tim would get things started for us and stand by on scene. He just did a fantastic job. It’s going to be a real loss for us,” Hill said. Melinda Kamp, Akron clerk-treasurer, said the town has not even met to discuss Fleck’s replacement yet. “In this situation, we will wait. We have one officer, but we do have backup from other departments. Since we are in the county, we do have support from the county,” Kamp stated. “He will be very hard to replace anyway,” she said.
