Cause of Death: Gunfire
End of Watch: September 20, 1937
Date of Incident: September 18, 1937
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: 9 months
Suspect Info: Ray Prior
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type

On September 18, 1937, Deputy Frank B. Ackermann and Special Deputy Lennis Brice went to the I.&G.N. Hotel, located at 118 Medina Street, answering a call for a man with a gun.  Upon entering the hotel, Deputy Ackermann encountered Ray Prior, from Donna, TX, in the hotel lobby with a gun.  Deputy Ackermann chased Prior up the stairs to the entrance of the second floor where a gun battle took place.  Deputy Ackermann and Prior were wounded in the exchange of gunfire.  On September 20th, Deputy Ackermann died of his wounds.  He had served as a Peace Officer for five years, acting as an agent for the Landowners and Hunters Association before becoming a Deputy Sheriff on January 1, 1937.  

Deputy Ackerman was survived by his wife, Mrs. Iva Ackermann; four brothers, Ed, Alfred, and Dewey Ackermann of Pratt, and George Ackermann of Wetmore; two sisters, Mrs. Edwin Uecker and Mrs. E. H. Klaus of San Antonio,  and three stepsons, Kenneth, Joe and Norman Jones.  Internment was in Bueche family cemetery.