{"id":1449101,"date":"2025-10-14T03:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1449101"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:22:49","slug":"texas-parks-and-wildlife-official-from-east-texas-dies-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1449101","title":{"rendered":"Parks and Wildlife official from East Texas dies of cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14_031210-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1449102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14_031210-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14_031210.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>ANGELINA COUNTY \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. 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<p>According to our news partner KETK and 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<p>Gartman\u2019s and his wife Ashley had two sons together. Ashley\u2019s father is retired Angelina County Sheriff Kent Henson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANGELINA COUNTY \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. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1449101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parks and Wildlife official from East Texas dies of cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1449349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14_031210-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 18:54:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14_031210-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449101"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449616,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449101\/revisions\/1449616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}