20-Jan-2022 COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington Fire Department, IAFF Local 38, local and first responder community are mourning the loss of CFD firefighter Dave Studer who passed away 1/20/2022 due to complications of COVID-19.
Covingtonky.gov writes Dave will be remembered for his banter, his joking, his playful kidding of fellow firefighters – a big personality that helped make a stressful job easier to bear.
“He was a jokester and just had a funny way about him,” Chief Mark
Pierce said. “Everybody got along with him, everybody liked him, and
everybody liked working with him.”
Studer was hired at the Fire Department on May 12, 1997, making him No. 3 in seniority in Covington, Pierce said. His father and brother were also firefighters.
Within the Fire Department, Studer held the rank of engineer and specifically was the “tillerman” on the third shift at Co. 1 downtown.
Pierce said Studer was in the hospital for about three weeks being treated for COVID-19. (He also said there were no other exposures to firefighters connected to Studer’s diagnosis.)
Studer was scheduled to retire in July.
“He leaves a void in the Department that we’ll never be able to fill,” Pierce said. “He was one of a kind.”
Covington Professional Firefighters Local 38 shared the following letter from CFD with funeral details.
Rest In Peace Brother and prayers to his loved ones and colleagues.