Remembrance of fallen officers

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Dunnellon Police Officer Cody Murphy read the names of the officers killed in Marion County during the memorial ceremony last week.

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In Florida 10 law enforcement agents have lost their lives in the line of duty this year.

Those men and women as well as the other 729 officers, since records were kept, were remembered during a special Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial Ceremony in front of the Fallen Officers Memorial at the McPhearson Government Complex on May 12.

Marion County Sheriff Ed Dean said each of those that died represented family members, someone serving citizens through their agencies, someone missed and someone called home.

Roll Call of Fallen Marion County Officers

1881 Burrell Dawkins, Ocala Town Marshall

1908 Bill Hudson, Officer, Ocala Police Department

1910 William E. Hutson, Deputy, Sheriff’s Office,

1924 Perry Bostick, Assistant Chief, Ocala Police Dept.

1924 Henry Gordon, Chief, Ocala Police Department

1926 Alan Osman Warren, Deputy, Sheriff’s Office

1930 Nathan Hattaway, Officer, Ocala Police Dept.

1951 Edward Porter, Jr., Sheriff, Marion County

1955 Mahlon Otis Tuck, Assistant Chief, Ocala Police Dept.

1955 Robert L. Wooten, Deputy, Sheriff’s Office

1955 Curtis Youngblood, Deputy, Sheriff’s Office

1955 Roscoe H. Hargett, Agent, Florida State Beverage Dept.

1958 Corwin Marcus Starry, Agent, Florida State Beverage Dept.

1990 William H. Rutherford, Deputy, Sheriff’s Office

2004 Brian Litz, Deputy, Sheriff’s Office