Officer Down Memorial Page

Your heroism and service is honored today, the 80th 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.

I am glad that your granddaughter found this site so that she knows your sacrifice and the sacrifice of your children is not forgotten. Time never diminishes respect.

Rest In Peace

Phyllis Loya
mother of fallen officer Larry Lasater, PPD, eow 4/24/05
November 21, 2011

I never knew my grandfather as he was murdered in the line of duty when my mother was only 17 and 21 years before I was born. His murder left my mother and her two sisters orphaned as their mother had died 10 years earlier.
He was a pharmacist who lost his business in the Great Depression. A dear friend was Chief of Police and hired him as a Night Watchman because he needed a job and was trying to take care of his three daughters. The gunshot severed his spinal cord and left him a quadraplegic. They were unable to feed him because, at that time, they had no way to care for people with such severe injury. He died a month after being shot from starvation. Were this to happen today, with medical advances, he might have lived.
I will always wonder what would have happened had he lived.
I never knew him but I miss him just the same. Based on the photos I've seen, I have his eyes.
I very much appreciate that you have created this website.
I am proud to have been able to write this.

Mary Hagler White
granddaughter
October 13, 2008

Rest in Peace Sir.

Pat Van Den Berghe, Manchester, NH
Neighbors for a Better Manchester, NH
November 30, 2007

Rest in peace Watchman Hagler, you served your community well.

a citizen
November 21, 2004