Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Deputy Sheriff William Lafayette Nettles

Bowie County Sheriff's Office, Texas

End of Watch Tuesday, March 1, 1892

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Reflections for Deputy Sheriff William Lafayette Nettles

On the 130th Anniversary of your passing, you are remembered for your bravery. I am proud to call this Deputy my Great Grandfather!

Cindy Ohlms
Great Grand Daughter

March 1, 2022

I’m not sure what our relationship is but He is family; My Mom’s family was Nettles.

Jerry G. Click, Firefighter / Paramedic
Garland Fire Department Garland, TX

January 27, 2021

Your heroism and service is honored today, the 117th anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.


Rest In Peace.

Phyllis Loya
mother of fallen officer Larry Lasater

March 1, 2009

you are remembered today and thank you sir for your service and dedication

VANDENBERGHE
MANCHESTER, NH

February 22, 2008

Deputy, on this, the 114th anniversary of your EOW, I want to take a moment and remember you and your service.
Thank you for your service to the citizens and to the State of Texas. Your name will live forever among those other heros who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
Rest in Peace, Deputy. Know you will never be forgotten.

Patrolman John Griggs
Pueblo (CO) Police Dept

March 1, 2006

This man was my great-grandfather, whom I had only known of as Billy Nettles.

As a young man I had been told that he was a policeman and that he had been killed in a saloon in Redwater Texas.

It is only recently that I have found his full name and the particulars of his death.

He was, and still is, missed.

Johnny R. Click
Family, Great Grandson

September 6, 2005

I stop by this website often after the death of two dear friends with the NCSHP (Troopers Calvin Taylor E.O.W. October 3, 2001 and Anthony Cogdill E.O.W. May 30, 2003). Unfortunately, I had to add the name of another friend recently. Deputy Jeffery Hewitt, Buncombe County (NC) Sheriff’s Department, E.O.W. April 4, 2004.

I want to honor all of those who gave their life in the line of duty. Although your death was many many years ago, you are still a hero.

God Bless the men and women who continue to serve their communities in our great Nation.

...Gone, but never Forgotten....

Marti Ingle (EMT-Paramedic)
Haywood Co EMS (NC)

April 9, 2004

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