Trooper Frank G. Vazquez Ohio State Highway Patrol Ohio Tuesday, November 6, 2001  Leave a Reflection  Return to Memorial  Print This Page  Continue Building Book  Page: 1 of 72 of 73 of 74 of 75 of 76 of 77 of 7

Gone, but never forgotten!!Thank you for your service! Still thinking of you daily!

Anonymous

2009-11-08

I am trying to stay up and watch saturday night live. enjoying yourself??

Christian vazquez
Son
2009-11-07

Your heroism and service is honored today, the 8th 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.

You are loved and missed by many, especially your children.
The pain and the pride are forever.

Rest In Peace

Phyllis Loya

Anonymous

2009-11-06

Thanksgiving is soon....thinking of you always.

Anonymous

2009-11-05

School Starts on monday.... NOOOOO Summer is going to be over but it was fun just got a aircast on my broke bone and i am doing fine! how are you? and is bailey fine?

Christian vazquez

2009-08-22

Hi dad its me. This week is the last week of school, my soccer season ended, and my recital for tap and hip hop is in 20 days. I wish you could be here to see me play soccer and do dance and i would let you meet my bff's Lydia and Ju-young. also i moved schools from N.L.M.A to village academy and made alot of new friends including lainnie pamela erin and others. i love you dad. bye.

Kyra Vazquez
Daughter
2009-06-01

Hi dad. i just had a soccer game last night. we lost. but i still shot a goal!!!!!!!!! i miss you dad. love you. bye

Kyra Vazquez
daughter
2009-04-29

Happy Easter!

Anonymous

2009-04-12

Hey bro I was just thinking of you and wanted to say I miss you and I wish you were here My son is getting soo big he just turned 7 this year He loves Star wars like you did He also says he wants to be a police officer when he grows up. He also says he wants to be a super hero thats what you used to say I hope he grows up to be at least half the man you used to be or more. Watch over him for me

Carrie Hyre
Siater
2009-03-22

Thinking of you always....I miss you.

Anonymous

2009-02-11

Hey Frankie! It's been a while since my last post so I thought I'd give you an update on how I've been, even though you probably already know! I just recently graduated from Northwest State with a degree in Business Management and I am now working full time in the Court House. It's been a hard past couple weeks since I started but I'm catching on. I've been very busy planning my wedding as well! I'm getting married in August and I really wish you could be there but I know you will be in spirit. You would've loved my fiance Adam. He's in law enforcement as well. What can I say, the family needs another cop huh! :) There is no doubt you two would've been great friends. You don't need to worry either, he has been nothing but great to me and I know that is something you would've been concerned about. Dad likes him so he must be ok right? I've talked about you alot with Adam and I still get teary eyed. I miss you so much and it makes me upset you couldn't be here for all my major life achievements. Your kids are growing up so much too! I hadn't seen them for a while and about a month ago I did and they have gotten so big! I know you're proud of them. But I just wanted to give you an update on my life and tell you how much I miss you. You were always like the big brother I never had. Please keep watch over me and the family. We all wish you were here. God Bless and give your mom a great big kiss and hug from me! I love you.

Adrian Schortgen
Cousin
2009-01-24

Hey Frank today is New Years day 2009 I hope this year is better than last I graduated from college!!! Krissy had a paty for me after anyways Watch over me and Joey please for some reason I think we will need it this year. I love you and miss you Happy New Years

Carrie Hyre
sister
2009-01-01

Christmas is comming soon I still have the Christmas oranaments we used to put on our tree. Remeber when we were little we used to fight over whose was highest on the tree? I put you at the top of the tree and put me right below it. I love and miss you and still remember all the Christmas times we had as kids I love you and miss you Merry Christmas Bro

Carrie Hyre
Sister
2008-12-08

hey bro we just had thanksgiving and I missed you and mom soooo much every holiday I almost die inside when I look around and neither of you are there. How I wish for one just one more Christmas with you guys at our old house which is gone now. One last fourth of July or Easter dinner with all of us at that old blue house in Defiance. But I know it will only happen in my dreams. I often dreamm of you I dream that you are standing right beside me and you turn your head and look at me and smile then you dissapear. But my thoughts, dreams and memories of you will not.
Love Always and Forever
Your little Sister

Carrie Hyre
sister
2008-11-29

Hi, Frank. I never met you...but I wish I had. I recently have become friends with your lovely wife and three children. They are incredible and I'm proud to say that they are a part of my life now. Christian looks so much like you it's uncanny. Kyra is in my sons class at school...he actually has a crush on her (hope you would approve). Noah is as sweet as can be. I'm sorry that I never got the chance to meet you; however, please know that you are highly respected and your memory lives on.

Susan Bechtel

2008-11-15

Hey Frank,
Just wanted to say that I've been thinking about you this week. It doesn't feel like it was 7 years ago. Time just gets away from us sometimes. I'm so glad your family is doing well. Our thoughts are with them and you continuously. Thank you again for being the person and trooper that you were!! You will never be forgotten!!

OSP dispatcher

2008-11-08

This is a unique website. I have come here since we lost a Whatcom County
deputy on Sept. 13, 2001. He was young, too. I have read so many pages of
reflections from your wife and it makes me feel like I knew you, too. You are
a complete stranger and yet, thru these pages we grieve for you and your
family as if we were acquaintances. And these stories are repeated over and
over here and we lose a piece of ourselves with each death. We cannot repay
you for what you did for your state and what a difference you made in each
life you touched. Saying thank you doesn't seem sufficient and yet, it's all I
can offer you. It takes a really special person to serve in law enforcement.
Lynn Kole
Bellingham, WA

Anonymous

2008-11-06

My thoughts and prayers are with your loved ones and friends on this seventh anniversary of your EOW. Continue to keep watch over them and those still out on patrol watching over the Thin Blue Line. You will never be forgotten

James Sheppard
Father of Sgt. Jason L. Sheppard EOW 12/7/06
2008-11-06

Trooper Vazquez,

Thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and your legacy.
You filled the corners of your time here with the fullness of life. The time was short, but the love and memories will live on until the sun rises once again.

Rest in peace.

paul

Anonymous

2008-11-05

Frankie,
I just wanted to leave a little somthing on here in rememberance of you. My memories of you go back further than school since we shared cousins.lol. I've sat here and read all the threads people have shrared about you and I have to say you are a loved man my friend. You and that darn smile, always wanting to make someone laugh. Cuttin up all the time, dancin like a fool. You were great Frankie. I'll never forget the time you pulled me over for a headlight out on my way home from Paulding late one night, or should I say very early in the morning. It was then that I realized my drivers license had expired the day before. Shining your darn flashlight at me and threatening to give me a ticket unless I gave you the candy bar on the seat beside me. You played fair and gave me a warning since I had renewed my tags, just forgot about the license. But that was you, and that's what we loved about you. Ya know we had our 15 yr. class reunion last weekend. And we missed you. We started a webpage for our class www.defiance93.com and we have a page on there in memory of you. Well keep a watchful eye over us my friend, it was an honor knowing you.

Heather

Heather Martinez
classmate
2008-10-18

Trooper Vazquez,

My father was a Seargant in the Patrol at the time you were serving, your tragic death will never be forgotten by me. People like you are the reason I wanted to work in Law Enforcement. You made the ultimate sacrifice and I will never forget it.

Jason Teter
USBP

Border Patrol Agent Teter
United States Border Patrol
2008-09-03

Happy 4th of July Frank!
(ok, so I'm a few days late, what else is new)
I know this song has been out for quite a while. Every time I hear it I think of you and all of the other L.E. officers that have made the ultimate sacrifice. You see, our soldiers are fighting the war overseas, but you guys(and girls)are fighting our wars here. I know you loved what you did, the excitement on your face when you got something good was all the explanation that would ever be needed. You fought a gallant war for the citizens of Ohio and you will not be forgotten, especially when we commemorate our soldiers overseas, and wars past. It's just fitting that we make sure to remember all those in law enforcement that have sacrificed also. Anyways, Happy 4th! I hope your family is doing well!! Here's the song I was talking about.

"American Soldier"
I'm just trying to be a father,
Raise a daughter and a son,
Be a lover to their mother,
Everything to everyone.
Up and at 'em bright and early,
I'm all business in my suit,
Yeah, I'm dressed for success from my head down to my boots,
I don't do it for money, there's still bills that I can't pay,
I don't do it for the glory, I just do it anyway,
Providing for our future's my responsibility,
Yeah I'm real good under pressure, being all that I can be,
And I can't call in sick on Mondays when the weekends been to strong,
I just work straight through the holidays,
And sometimes all night long.
You can bet that I stand ready when the wolf growls at the door,
Hey, I'm solid, hey I'm steady, hey I'm true down to the core,
And I will always do my duty, no matter what the price,
I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrafice,
Oh, and I don't want to die for you,
But if dyin's asked of me,
I'll bear that cross with an honor,
'Cause freedom don't come free.
I'm an american soldier, an american,
Beside my brothers and my sisters I will proudly take a stand,
When liberty's in jeopardy I will always do what's right,
I'm out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight.
American soldier, I'm an American,
An American,
An American Soldier

Toby Keith lyrics

Thank you Frank!!!
Thinking of you often

Dispatcher

2008-07-07

Thank you, sir, for your service and dedication to the citizens of Ohio. From some of the reflections I've read, you are really missed by a loving family. Thank you again.

PSO CW Edwards
North Augusta Dept. of Public Safety (SC)
2008-06-15

I drove past your memorial sign on the 270 the other day on my way to meet some OSP Dispatchers and Troops for dinner... I thought about you, and your family, and I pray that everyone is doing okay. I've only been on the patrol for a little over a year, but I've heard a couple of funny stories about you... I can imagine what an amazing Trooper, Friend, Husband, Father, Son and Brother you must have been. I know that you're keeping an eye out on the Troops..they all love their adventures... Rest easy. God Bless.

Dispatcher
State Highway Patrol
2008-06-04

I cant get you out of my mind ever since the dedication of the dugout. I just kept asking myself WHY Why WHy did this have to happen? Only GOD knows Why but ever since youve been gone i have been trying to preach the message about the dangers of drunk driving I tell your story to everyone I meet hoping it will save a life or two. I show them your picture and pictures of your kids Hoping it will make someone think twice Praying it will save someone else from the pain I felt that night I got the call. I love you and will keep fighting the fight for you love always
your baby sister

Carrie Hyre
Sister
2008-05-23