Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

On this the 6th Anniversary of you leaving for a better place, I wish to say thank you for your service to the great state of Texas. Deputy Hill you are a hero not only to the community you served but most importantly to your family and friends. Rest well brother.

Border Patrol Agent
United States Border Patrol

July 22, 2006

Well brother, as of June 30, 2005 you are an uncle to a beautiful baby boy. He will no doubt be a football player with his size and strength. He knows your face as well as mine from your pictures. You would be proud of him, and it breaks my heart you are not here to meet him.
Jodi

December 30, 2005

Dear Brother,
You gave your life doing what you loved best. No one knows why we chose this job, knowing that we could be a target at any time. Only those of us who have served really know.
We did it to make this country we live in, the best and safest in the whole world. Your family honored one of our fallen Brothers, Officer Dennis McNamara, Upper Darby Twp. Pennsylvania EOW Jan,2000, and I thank them for it. Your Family, and fellow Brothers, can be proud of you.
The Blue we wear, reflects the sky, where Our Almighty Boss is, and one day we will all meet. Till then Brother, watch over the rest of our Brothers & Sisters. My deepest sympathy to your family for your ultimate sacrifice.
Rest in Peace...

Ptl. William Johnson #52 Retired
Upper Darby Twp. Pennsylvania

November 26, 2004

Rest in Peace and God Bless you brother
Your sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Deputy Constable LC Downing
Wharton County Texas Pct 2

September 1, 2003

I went to High School with Oscar and he was a great guy! Always smiling and trying to make others around him laugh....what a jokester. He'll be missed.

Anonymous

Oscar, you are greatly missed. I miss your smiling face and your crazy stories. Food runs just are not the same without you. You always made them an adventure. Thanks for all the times you made us smile at work, even on the bad days. (ha ha-inside joke) Thanks for being my friend.
I believe- that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

C. Ebersole
Harris County Sheriff's Dept.

Today is Memorial Day. I went to Deputy/LCPL Hill's Grave at Veteran's Cemetary today. I remember him as a "Jokester". He always had a smile on his face. He was a brave man. The first time I saw him, he was breaking up an Inmate fight in the jail. One Inmate bit him on the arm. There was so much blood that I couldn't tell whose it was. Through all this, Deputy Hill remained in good spirits. I had the honor of attending the Academy with him. Although he is a Marine and I am Army, we are still Brothers in Law and I miss him much.

Deputy Elbert Robinson
Harris County Sheriff's Department

Oscar was a great friend ever since I met him our senior year in high school. He talked me into joining the Marine Corp with him after high school. He had a way with people! He was a great guy and will never be forgotten. I am sure everyone who knew him feels the same way. Thanks for all the good times Oscar!! We will always remember you.

SSgt Joel Tharp

OSCAR WAS TAKEN FROM US AT IPC.
HE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.

DEPUTY R. BO JENKINS
HARRIS COUNTY

Rest in peace blue angel. God bless the family and friends of this fallen hero.

S. Yates

I sat down today going through some photographs we had taken when you and Barry were in the academy. I laughed and remembered your sweet smile and how much you and Barry would cut up. I thought somehow somewhere you two had to be related because of your goofy sense of humor. Oscar, thank you for being a part of Barry's life and for touching ours. I'm so sorry you had to leave us. Barry was so torn up over your death. He wore a memorial bracelet with your name on it very proudly. He was so proud of you and I know he was honored to be your brother.
It is easy to visit you at the cemetary since you are both so close together. Never would I have ever dreamt that I would be visiting the cemetary for either of you.

I miss you and promise to never forget you.
Cathy Hill

I never had the opportunity to meet Deputy Sheriff Ocsar Hill. I do know that loosing a law enforcement officer is like loosing a family member. I lost a close friend that was a police officer in Des Moines, Iowa after a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Office Pat Moody. I had seen him the week before his death and he looked great, but tragically it was the last time I would see him because he entered the hospital with an internal infections and never regained consciousness. I am hoping that we all realized that all law enforcement officers are the communities family as well.

God Bless Deputy Hill and may he have eternal happiness in heaven.

Tonya M. Stephenson
Seaford, Delaware, USA

Tonya M. Stephenson
Law Enforcment History

Oscar-
I had a dream last night that you were here just hanging out with me- I didn't want to wake up. You were and still are the best big brother there ever was. I am so very proud to say that you are my brother; you have always been my hero. I miss you so much. How I wish you were still here with me. I love you.

Randi

I met Oscar when he was just a skinny little waif on the football team at DeSoto High. I gave him a ride home from practice one afternoon and he invited me in to hang out for a while. I barely knew the guy, but I went in anyway, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. We became the best of friends and even though I was always the withdrawn, quiet guy in the background, Oscar always knew how to loosen me up. I can't count the number of people I met and befriended because of Oscar. He just had a way with people. Almost everything was a laugh to him.

In the years that passed, we did a lot together. Football, of course, but we got into karate together, made an unforgettable trip to South Padre for Sprink Break one year with nothing but my parents Mobil card and about 40 bucks between us (most of which went to gas, because wouldn't you know it, there wasn't a Mobil station within 200 miles of the Island). We slept in my car on the beach, showered at a local campsite, and spent the rest of our time either at Louie's Back Yard or Charlie's, the two best bars down there at the time.

What I remember most about Oscar was how focused he was on where he was going. If you asked him what he was going to do after school, there was not even a pause for thought - "I'm joining the Marines - Ooorah!" He seemed to be in such a big hurry to accomplish his goals, and looking back, maybe a part of him knew what was coming and he wanted to have everything done. He even had me ready to join up when he came back from boot and was working in the recruiting office. If I hadn't chosen that time to run my car into the back of an 18-wheeler, I wonder how things might have turned out. We kept in touch sporadically after he joined the Corps. I've never been good at communicating, even with my own family, so I guess part of that falls on me, but we were both busy. Me with college, him with the military. Every time I talked to him, he had some cool story to tell me - about his latest float, about his escapades as a bouncer in his off time, whatever.

Finally, Oscar came back to Texas. And not just Texas, but Houston, just a few minutes drive from Conroe, where I live. Now he was getting on with the next phase of his life he had planned out - to be a cop. For a time, we kept in touch regularly, went out to clubs to hunt women, went to a gun show...Then I met a woman. As things tend to go, I started spending less time with Oscar and more time with Marianne. I don't blame her for us not staying in touch - just one of my idiosynchrasies - I'm not a keep-in-touch kind of guy. But I can't even begin to express how much I regret not staying in touch with him now. Too little, too late.

Today, I was packing...getting ready to move. I came across some pictures of me and Oscar at a karate tournament in Dallas years ago. I had a fierce desire to call up my old friend and meet him somewhere for a couple of beers and chew over old times. It hit me again, in a way it hadn't since I helped carry his casket from the church, that I would never get that chance again.

Sitting here, at 3:00am, unable to sleep because of old memories, I look back at the past decade or so that I knew Oscar. I look at what he did with that decade - military, his life in california, deputy - and I look at what I did with it - dropped out of college, no direction, too many jobs to list, drugs... I realize that Oscar is the man that I wish I had grown up to be. Even though I was the older of us, I always looked up to him. He was always the center of attention, the life of every party, the best friend you could ever want, always willing to help you however he could. I would give anything to have been able to trade places with you in that hospital bed, bro. Why couldn't it have been me, a person that has contributed nothing to the world in the past ten years?

God bless you, Bro.
I hope when next we meet, I have lived the rest of my life up to your standards.

Jes Hall

Deputy Hill, your watch is over and our department salutes you and your tour. May you watch over the gates of heaven, as you watched over the citizens of Harris County, Texas.

Deputy J. Allen
Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department, Texas

I grew up with Oscar for all of the early years of his life. He introduced me to G.I. Joe, the Beastie Boys and Guns -n- Roses. I used to watch in wonder as he would scarf down 7 cheese burgers in one sitting. I have looked up to him my entire life and still do. Oscar- I keep finding things that you gave me when we were kids like the Dallas Cowboys football shaped soap bar and the medicine pouch you made. I miss you from the bottom of my heart and I love you.
Your little sister-

I want to say thank you to the cop on duty at the hospital when I came to visit. I think his first name was Chris. He was very helpful to me at a time when no one else was there. Thankyou.
Jodi

Jodi Hill

Ill see you on the otherside brother

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