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Janica Ellsworth listened for her husband's patrol car each night. She would hear his keys jingle in the door, the comforting snap of Velcro as he took off his vest, his footsteps coming upstairs to bed.

They were the sounds of his safety.

Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Ellsworth died several days after being struck by a car Nov. 18 in Box Elder County. He had stopped to assist with a downed power line.

"Not a day goes by that our thoughts aren't consumed with the loss of Eric," Janica Ellsworth said through tears Thursday morning. "Our family is not the same. Yet we feel strength that is not our own."

Eric Ellsworth was one of three Utah law enforcement officers honored Thursday at the state Capitol after dying in the line of duty — their names the newest additions to the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial wall on the west lawn. A crowd of about 200, including Gov. Gary Herbert, gathered for the ceremony.

The second addition to the memorial was West Valley City police Officer Cody Brotherson, who was killed Nov. 6 after being struck by a car allegedly stolen by three juveniles, which Brotherson was trying to stop with tire spikes. The third was Salt Lake City Officer Rollin Tanner, who died after being mauled by a lion in 1927.

The wall now has 142 names.

Tanner's death had been forgotten until Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby recently dug up an old newspaper report of the lion attack. Kirby, a former Springville police officer, is the historian for the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial.

Following his famous solo New York-to-Paris flight in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Salt Lake City on Sept 3. Throngs of Utahns descended on the city to see Lindbergh speak at Liberty Park.

A couple of lions at the park's zoo were apparently agitated by the commotion. Tanner, 66, who was working the crowd, stopped to reach in to pet a lion as he passed their cage. It was something he had done hundreds of times before.

But this time, a lion seized Tanner's hand, dragging the officer into the bars. Another lion joined the mauling.

A passerby used a metal rod to drive back the animals, and Tanner was rushed to the hospital. But he later succumbed to his wounds.

Tanner did not have any family members in attendance Thursday. But several members of the Ellsworth and Brotherson families were there, as were families of officers previously added to the memorial.

Jenny Brotherson said her son had wanted to be a police officer — in his hometown of West Valley City, no less — since he was in first grade. In December 2013, Cody Brotherson reached his goal. He asked Jenny to pin on his badge the day he was sworn in.

Though he was nicknamed "baby-faced Brotherson" by his colleagues, Cody Brotherson, 25, had become an accomplished young man at the time of his death, his mother said.

"We wonder what might've been in his future, if he hadn't been stolen on a cold November night," she said.

Janica Ellsworth and her three young sons placed the plaque with Eric's name on the wall. It has been a slow, halting recovery since his death, she said, taking long pauses to wipe back tears.

"I long to see Eric again," she said. "I wish I could see him walk through the door, just one more time."

Jessica Le, Brotherson's fiancée, said after the ceremony that she could identify with much of what Ellsworth said.

She, too, would listen for the garage door opening, and recalled the sound of Velcro being pulled apart late at night.

Brotherson would get into bed, and give her a hug. Sometimes they would lie in silence. Other times, he would tell a few exciting or humorous stories of his shift.

"He would be loving this," Le said of the ceremony. "He was slightly an attention seeker, in his own subtle way. I'm sure he has a huge smile on his face. I'm sure he was loving it."