Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook and members of the Sheriff’s Office will host the 2024 Police Memorial Ceremony on Thursday.
– Family, friends and the law enforcement community paid tribute Thursday to those who died in the line of duty in Clay County with a special ceremony held in Orange Park.
Twelve pictures represented the 12 law enforcement officers who died int he line of duty in Clay County between 1“There are no words that can assuage their emptiness,” Sheriff Michelle Cook said of the grieving families. “What I want them to know is that they will always be a part of our family, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office family. They are not going through this alone. They have an agency and really a community, the Clay County community, that loves them, appreciates them and respects them.
Sutherland remembers Zirbel as a jokester and the life of the party and said a day like this is difficult. “It is a very strong bond. It is a strong bond. You build a family,” Sutherland said. “To go through this and to see what the family goes through, not only the family but the squad -- the guys also deal with it. We still talk about it, and there are certain places that we will not go on certain days because that’s where we were with Ben.”“Each of these individuals that we lost, we keep their pictures up at our station.
The quilt ministry of Middleburg First Baptist Church made quilts this year to honor the law enforcement officers and gave them to their families.“He was larger than life. He was a big teddy bear. You would not think he would be in law enforcement. But he was very caring. Very much a family man,” Seagle said. “He never left a room without telling me that he loved me and giving me a kiss goodbye or a kiss when he came home.
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