Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Ptl T. D. Hill, Thank you for your kind and heart warming reflection. Dad was the kind of person that would have been honored to serve with you or any of your brother or sister officers.

Your Brother in LAW

Assistant Chief Carl Wortham
Sand Springs Police Dept. Okla

April 1, 2004

Officer Glenn Truman Wortham,

Sir, As I read the reflections on this sacred page I am left silent. Your Son and Grandson speak with the strength honor and respect that surley came from you. What a powerful thing to say about your life when you leave such strength and honor behind. I hope that my daughter has the same words to say about me and I accomplish our mission with the honor you have. You live in every Officer that serves this ungrateful world. Your brothers and sisters in your law enforcement family never forget. Sir, Thank You for your Honor. Thank You for showing the world that a hero lives on in the honorable Men that he leaves behind.

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, Saying: "Whom shall I send and Who will go for Us?" Then I said "Here Am I, Send me" Isaiah 6:8

Ptl.T.D.Hill
Ontario Police Dept.

March 16, 2004

Dad, 30 years ago today I received that call in the middle of the night to bring Mom to the hospital because one of the detectives said you had been hurt. I never imagined that you would have been killed by someone that meant nothing to anyone. I still can not forgive him for what he did.

We will always honor you for who you were and how you lived. Your grandsons are honorable men and caring fathers, I see alot of you in them. Your great-grandchildren will also know what a true hero you are and what an outstanding person you were. You are still missed beyond belief, there's not a day go by that I don't think about you. I'm now 55 and I can't stop thinking what things would have been like if you had lived to be 55. You gave so much in such a short time it's hard to recall anyone I ever know that has left such an honorable legacy.

I'm proud to this day and always will be of who you were and the goodness you left behind. I have tried to live a life that honors you and will continue to do so.

Until we meet again.

Your son.

Assistant Chief Carl Wortham
Sand Springs Police Dept. Okla

You are a Hero to your family and to us all. Your sacrifices will never be forgotten.
Rest easy brother...rest easy...

Cleveland Police, Ohio Retired

I am touched by these sweet reflections from family members. Satan
meant this for evil, but God meant it for good. God bless you for taking
a terrible event in all your lives and not wasting one bit of it! You have
brought glory to God and it warms my heart! God bless you, God bless
you, God bless you!!!

Lynn Kole
Washington State

my phone rang in the middle of the night thinking it was a boyfreind being funny. but it was my mother trying to tell me tha my father was died then my brother got on the phone and told me the same and that a police office would be by to pick me up to take me to the hospital. the day before i saw my dad we drive past each other and waved i did't know that would be the last time i would see. I miss you so much it hurts i am shaking just writing this. you missed my wedding but i had man to walk me down the ale your son. carl is the best dad you would be proud of him. mon is doing well also. i love you and miss you so much you were my hero,johnwayne all rolled in a wonderful man i will never forget you. looking forward when we will all be together again love sheron wortham janelli

sheron wortham janelli daugher

Gentlemen-Your father and grandfather would be so proud of the way you have honored him with your lives and your fond, caring memories of him. As a police sergeant and father I was profoundly touched by your personal reflections. God Bless you both and thank you for being such a fine legacy for your father/grandfather.

Anonymous

My most vivid early childhood memories are of you, Grandpa, and to this day I still carry them close to my heart and fresh in my mind. You were a mountain of a man to me (in more ways than one) and I thought that nothing could ever take you away.

I never knew how to properly grieve for you as a five year-old, I only knew that you were gone and I missed you terribly. But slowly, over time, I’ve come to grips with it somewhat and my grief has turned into great respect and admiration, although I still miss you even now.

Dad has just recently handed down to me something that belonged to you and that you used in the line of duty. Dad has used it on duty and I have been privileged to use it on duty before as well. I consider it an heirloom and a true honor to take possession of it; there could not have been a more appropriate object, in my mind, to honor and remember you by. Your Great-Grandsons will know about you and, when the time is right, I will pass it on to one of them.

It’s easy to see how Dad would consider you such a great role model because I see him in the same way. And I know it’s because there’s a lot of you living on in him – I can see it in the stories he’s told about you and himself, even when he thought I wasn’t listening.

I still think of you at every momentous or proud event in my life and wish that you were here with me to see it.

I love you and I miss you, Grandpa.


John

John Wortham

Dad, can you believe that I'm about to retire. Thirty years in this business and still loving it. You were my only true hero, you have guided me throughout my life. I have tried to live the way you would have been proud of. I have made certain that your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will never forget you. I could not have asked for a better role model, I have missed you deeply, my father, my hero, my friend.

Assistant Chief Carl Wortham
Sand Springs Police Department