FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – Katie Wolfe has spent decades helping others. She’s a U.S. Army veteran and has served as a confinement officer for the Allen County Sheriff’s Department for 17 years. Now, her jail family is stepping in, united behind one message: “Fight Like a Wolfe.”
To work inside the Allen County jail, you have to be tough. Lt. Gabrielle Wright says she was nervous her first day until Wolfe, a veteran confinement officer, pulled her aside and reassured her.
“And she goes, you got this. And her saying that to me, just, it calmed my nerves. I don’t even think she knew the impact that it had,” Wright said.
Diagnosis stuns colleagues
This past winter, Wolfe pulled Wright aside again. This time to share her own heartbreaking news. She’d been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer…