Home Departments Sheriff's Office Fallen Officers

BOBBIE W DICKSON
End of Watch: August 8, 1986

Cause: Automobile Accident
Age: 55
Years of Service: 9

Deputy Dickson was killed in an automobile accident while en route to follow up on an investigation. A car coming in the opposite direction lost control and struck his patrol car head-on.

MICHAEL G COOK
End of Watch: November 24, 1976
Cause: Automobile Accident
Age: 35

Chief Cook was killed in a single vehicle accident while escorting an ambulance on an emergency call.





CURTIS OWEN STARRY
End of Watch: March 13, 1953
Cause: Automobile Accident
Age: 30
Years of Service: 3

Officer Starry and an explorer ride-along were responding to an emergency call when the squad car was struck from behind by a semi-truck. Both vehicles burst into flames. It took the emergency workers two hours fighting the blaze before the bodies were recovered. Officer Starry, the explorer and the truck driver were all killed in this incident.