Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Vicky, Shane & Colt,

I miss you guys!!! If you guys get this, tell your mom to give me a call....or a yell on email....I remeber hanging out with you guys at Need for Speed raceway and watching you guys play hockey!!

Shane, I know that you will make a great police officer, and you will follow in your dads footstep and be a great police officer, God be with you on the job...

June 6, 2005

Officer Dockery,
It takes one tough cop to be able to fight through eight years in a coma to speak to your loved ones one last time. I'm honored to be in the same profession as you. Rest in peace, brother.

Officer Vince Carnes
St. Petersburg (FL) Police Department

May 5, 2005

Gary Dockery has been in my thoughts alot lately. I'm not sure why but he has. I was too young to remember him getting shot, which is strange because I went to school with Colt and my brother went to school with Shane and I don't remember anything about it. I remember his recovery and how everyone said that it was a miracle. Now that I'm older I have researched Officer Dockery and it's truly an amazing, bittersweet story. I respect the family for believing in him and keeping him on life support. It took eight years for him to come out of his coma and he only survived days after. But what is important is that he got to see his wife and his boys and tell them that he loved them. The only word I can think of when it comes to Gary Dockery is "bittersweet". Even though his recovery was short lived, it was a miracle. I am amazed and inspired by the Dockery family. They kept Gary alive and believed in him for eight years and it paid off. I am inspired because if something ever happened to me, I would hope that my family would keep me alive just in case. I wish the Dockery family happiness, I understand that there will always be an empty space, but I'm sure that Gary is watching over you and awaiting your arrival in Heaven.

LNR
FRIEND

March 22, 2005

TO THE FAMILY OF GARY, ALWAYS REMEMBER HE IS NOT FORGOTTEN. WHEN I THINK OF MY SON, I ALSO THINK OF THOSE WHO ALSO HAVE GIVEN THE ALTIMATE SACRIFICE. THEY ARE ALWAYS WITH US IN OUR MEMORIES.
TO SHAWN AND COLT, GOD BLESS YOU BOTH.

LORRAINE
(MOTHER) DEP. DONALD K. BOND, JR.
EOW: 9.6.2001

March 5, 2005

Hey my buddy! Have had you so much on my mind the last week. Your awesome son Shane graduated from the Red Bank Police Academy the day after the anniversary of your leaving us (Vicky Jo reminded me of that). You would be so very proud of your boys. I guess that's what brings it all back so vividly right now. You know you were just like my brother. You would be so proud, too, of Beth. She graduated with Bachelors in Nursing, married, working at Erlanger in Trauma Step-down (if you had gone to Erlanger today with your gunshot wound, you might have ended up being her patient) and has a baby boy Issac. I look back at pictures of when I used to play music with you and Keith and whoever else would be around and think of those times as the best of my life! All the campfires we all sat around, all the times I crashed out on your living room floor because it was so late when we would finish playing music and singing! No one has really kept our "circle" going all these years, but the memories are true treasures to me! My life is great with John, Bobbi (my daughter w/John), Beth, Ross and Issac. You'd love John. He is Johnny Mack w/US-101. I could just see you calling him up all the time telling him what he should be playing and what he shouldn't be playing. I love you my buddy, always have, always will.

Regina Burks

April 25, 2004

Well Dad it's father's day and Colt and I would like to say happy father's day you know it is really hard to not be able to come to you and say these words or bring you a gift like other sons do there dads but God knows I am glad you aren't in the nursing home any more and that you are with God. We miss you so much and I guess I am being selfesh to say this but I sure wish you were here with me and Colt. You would really be proud of us. We play hockey 4 times a week and both of us and mom are doing fine We Love You Dad. Happy Fathers Day June 16,2001. Shane & Colt Dockery

Shane and Colt Dockery - sons

Gary,

I just wanted you to know Shane is doing great, but you probably already know that. I see him periodically, and god help him....he still wants to be a cop =) He's waiting to hear from Chattanooga, I wish him the best.

Tim took your passing harder than he let on...he really misses you dude. It almost killed me the day you left us, as I was escorting the ambulance to the E.R., I found out it was you in the back as we turned in at the hospital. We did our best to keep the media from turning your death into a spectacle, the way they did your recovery.

But you came a long way! I was so glad you had the chance to see your boys before God took you, you couldn't have timed it any better. I only wish that you could have been here with them a lot longer.

I'll do my best to look out for the boys, so don't worry about that. They're going to be all right.

To Shane and Colt, you can be proud of the old man...and always remember that he loves you.

I'll see you at line-up Gary, you are truly missed.

Marty

Martin Penny
Red Bank Police Department, TN

DAD COLT AND I REALLY MISS YOU, THERE ARE DAYS THAT SEEM SO HARD TO GET THREW ESPECIALLY WHEN I GET IN YOUR JEEP AND GO TO TELLICO WHERE WE SPENT SO MUCH TIME HORSE BACK RIDING AND FOUR WHEELING. SOME TIMES I GO TO MOM AND TALK TO HER BUT I KNOW SHE MISSES YOU TOO. WE LOST GRANDMAW AND I KNOW YOU TWO ARE WATCHING OVER US. DAD WE LOVE YOU AND TELL GRANDMAW WE LOVE HER TOO. I KNOW YOU ARE OUR GUARDING ANGLE AND KEEP AND EYE ON US AND I TRY TO TEACH COLT THE SAME MORALS YOU TAUGHT ME. MOM HAS STOOD BY US ALL THE WAY WE LOVE YOU SHANE AND COLT.

SHANE AND COLT DOCKERY,SONS
HEAVENS PATROLMAN

WELL GARY ITS BEEN SINCE 1997 ON GRANDMAW BARNARDS BIRTHDAY WHEN YOU LEFT US BUT I KNOW YOU ARE IN A LOT BETTER PLACE BUT I LOOK BACK AT OUR PICTURES AND WE HAVE SO MANY MEMORIES TOGETHER. THE BOYS ARE DOING GREAT AND I KNOW IN MY HEART YOU ARE WATCHING OVER US ALL. I REALLY MISS ALL OF OUR PARTIES,HORSE BACK TRIPS,CAMPING TRIPS, AND OUR ESCAPE TO COLORADO. I WISH WE WOULD HAVE STAYED THERE BECAUSE WE REALLY LOVED IT OUT THERE. GRANNY IS GONE NOW AND EXCEPT FOR SHANE AND COLT WE HAVE KNOW ONE BUT US. I WHISH WE COULD CLIMB ON SUNSHINE AND CHEROKEE AND TAKE OFF AND FEEL THE WIND IN OUR FACE AND RIDE STARS MTN ONE MORE TIME. I GUESS IT'S A LITTLE TO LATE FOR THAT BUT I AM SURE GOD IS PROVIDING YOU WITH A HORSE TO PATROL HEAVENS GATES. I WILL SEE YOU IN HEAVEN TAKE CARE OF GRANNY AND KEEP WATCH OVER US AND REMEMBER I HAVE DONE THE BEST I COULD WITH THE BOYS AND WE ARE SO BLESSED WITH THOSE TWO THAY ARE GOOD KIDS AND I AM SO PROUD OF THEM BOTH. I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO BE ABLE TO SEE YOU AND TALK TO YOU AGAIN AND I KNOW IN MY HEART WE COULD HAVE WORKED ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS OUT. I AM STILL JO AND OF COURSE THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE I WAS SITTING AT MY COMPUTER LISTING TO YOU,REGINA,KEITH AND I DURING A PRATICE SESSION SINGING OUR HEARTS OUT. I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE IN A LONG TIME BUT EVERYONE IS SO BUSY BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED WE ALL HAVE YOU IN OUR HEARTS AND MEMORIES AND JUST REMEMBER I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. TELL GRANNY HELLO AND YOU TO BEHAVE. JO

TRUE FRIEND

At the beginning of every shift I supervise, myself and the other officers on shift dedicate the day to the memory of a fallen officer. Today, April 15, 2003 we dedicated the shift to the memory of Patrolman Gary Dockery who died on this date 6 years ago.

When one law enforcement officer falls, we all stumble for a while, but we will carry on.

Patrolman Dockery's sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Sgt. Paul Bissonnette
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Surrey, BC

Well here I am again Gary missing you and I would give anything in this world if you were here. I recieved some information that the man that did this to you will be walking out of prision soon it's not fair. Where is the justice of this country going. You were doing your job protecting & serving and shot and your life was taken from you what right does he have to a life. He will be able to hug his children, grand children, and do anything he chooses to do. What do we get nothing just anger,hurt and pain on fathers day, christmas, and every other holiday. I am so upset over this and if there was anything I could do God above knows I would but it's out of my hands. I do know one thing the truth is fixing to come out about the entire situation. I swore to you when you came out of brain surgery that I would find out the truth and I have. I never let you down and I never will. I love you with all my heart and you and grandmaw keep watch over us. I never break a promise.

Vicky Dockery