Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PD SEND ITS CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF DEPUTY SHERIFF BILL JONES AND TO THE ROANE CO. SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON THEIR GREAT LOSS.
YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN DEPUTY JONES. MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.

NEIU PD
CHICAGO, IL

NORTHEASTERN ILL UNIV PD

May 20, 2006

JONES ME AND JENN WERE GOING THROUGH SOME OLD STUFF IN A DRAWER THE OTHER DAY AND FOUND A LAW ENFORCEMENT ZIPPO LIGHTER THAT YOU GAVE ME ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO. WHEN I LIT THE LIGHTER UP IT GAVE THIS HUGE FLAME. JENN NEVER DID LIKE TO USE MY ZIPPOS BECAUSE SHE SAID THE FLAME WAS TOO BIG AND WAS WORRIED SHE'D WOULD BURN HERSELF. I TOLD HER THAT IT WAS THE WAY YOU ALWAYS HAD THEM SET UP AND IT WAS JUST A HABBIT FOR ME FROM BEING AROUND YOU. I WISH YOU COULD OF BEEN THERE TO SEE THE LINE OF POLICE OFFICERS AT YOUR FUNERAL. THERE WAS A LOT OF POLICE BIKES LINED UP AND ME AND TODD WERE SITTING THERE LOOKING AT THEM. TODD SAID THAT IF YOU WERE THERE YOU WOULDNT HAVE PAID ANY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING THING BUT THE BIKES, THAT IT WOULD HAVE MADE YOUR DAY. AFTER YOUR BARRIEL THAT NIGHT A BUNCH OF US GOT TOGETHER AT THE HOUSE AND TALKED ABOUT YOU ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT. IT WAS ME, JENN, HERRALL, SHAMUS, TONY, WALLY, LACY, TINY, KENDAL AND TROOPER SMITH AND HIXON SWUNG BY. ALL NIGHT WE WAS TELLING OLD WAR STORIES INVOLVING YOU. AND I PROMISE YOU THAT AT THE END OF EVERY STORY WE WERE BUSTING OUT LAUGHING ABOUT YOU. I KNOW THATS HOW YOU WOULD WANT US TO REMEMBER YOU AND TALK ABOUT YOU, SO WE DID IT JONSIE STYLE "YOU KNOW WHAT IM GETTING AT". I ESPECIALLY REMEMBER ONE WHERE ME AND YOU WERE TALKING ON THE SOUTH END AND MICHAEL HERRALL CAME PULLING UP AND HIT THIS WATER PUDDLE SPLASHING ME AND YOU, THEN HERRALL GOT OUT AND STARTED SCREAMING AND JUMPING AROUND LIKE SOME NUT CASE. YOU LOOKED AT ME AND SAID "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU CALL THAT"? YOU DIDNT KNOW HIM AT THE TIME BUT AFTER THAT INCIDENT, YOU GOT TO KNOW HIM AND I MUST SAY HE KEPT YOU ON YOUR TOES. WE WILL ALWAYS SIT BACK AND TELL STORIES ABOUT THE WONDERFULL BAM BAM BILL JONES. YOU WERE LIKE A FATHER TO ALL OF US AND WE KNOW YOU WILL STILL BE WATCHING OVER US. WE MISS YOU SIR.

K9 DEPUTY JAMIE MELTON & WIFE JENN
ROANE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT

May 20, 2006

We are deeply saddened at Bill's loss and the loss of his civilian ride-along.
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We all recall you gave your best.
You did your job, now you can rest.
Your comrades now can cover your post
as you take your place with the Heavenly Host.

God Bless Our Fallen Brothers & Sisters.
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Our prayers will be with you, your family, and co-workers as well as his civilian "partner"!

Ptl. P.K. Harding (Ret.)
Binghamton )NY) PD

May 20, 2006

My prayers go out to Bill's Family and the Roane County Sheriff's Department. Bill will NOT be forgotten.

Chief Howard J. Miles
Bland Police Department

May 20, 2006

Srgt Bill B. Jones
It was a great honor to have had a chance to know and work with you. I will miss running through mud puddles and getting on the P.A system and making noise and calling Tubby and Jerry to see what you said after i would go by. It was a great feeling knowning that you were always close looking out for us and to give us advise. You are and always will be a legend that we always love talking about to family and friends and new recruits of law enforcement for many gerations to come. Hearing many people tell stories about you always puts a great big smile on thier face and thier gratest remark was that you treated them like you own son. Sargt Jones you are Like a father to me and hundreds of others and will never be forgotten. You are "The Father of Law Enforcement" god bless you and your family.

Deputy Michael P. Herrell
Roane County Sheriffs Department

May 19, 2006

Your courage will not be forgotten! I am a young officer and to see the courage that this officer gave is amazing. My prayers are with Officer Jones's family. He is a real hero.

POI Derek Keeler
Metro Nashville Police Department

May 19, 2006

God bless our brother!

Detective Mark Techmanski
City of Syracuse, NY Police Department

May 19, 2006

Tammy, The Jones Family and all the Law Enforcement Officers. This says it all.

When God Made Police Officers:
When the Lord was creating Police Officers, he was working into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You are doing a lot of work on this one". And the Lord said, "Have you read the specifications for this one? A Police Officer must be able to run five miles thru a dark alley, scale walls, go into homes that a health inspector would not enter and still not wrinkle their uniform."

They must be able to sit in a patrol car all day at a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvas the neighborhood for witnesses and testify in court the next day." They have to be in top physical condition at all times, running mostly on cold black coffee and half eaten meals and have six pairs of hands."

"Six pairs of hands, NO WAY!" said the angel as she slowly shook her head. "It's not the hands that's causing the problem." said the Lord, "It's the three pair of eyes that an officer must have." "Is that required on the standard model?" the angel asked.

The Lord answered, "One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before they ask,"May I see what's in there sir?" Already knowing what he may find. "Another pair on the side of his head to keep an eye out for his partner and one in front to look reassuringly at a bleeding victim, saying "You're going to be all right" when he knows it isn't so.

The angel said,"Lord, rest and work on this tomorrow." "I can't," said the Lord,"I already have one model that can put a 250 lb. drunk in a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on an officers paycheck." The angel asked,"Can it think?"

"You bet!" said the Lord, "It can tell you the elements of hundreds of crimes, recite the Miranda in it's sleep, detain, investigate, search and arrest a criminal on the street in less time than it takes five learned judges to debate if the stop was legal. It keeps it's sense of humor, has phenominal self control. They can deal with crime scenes straight from hell, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim's family and read the daily paper about law enforcement are not sensitive to the rights of the criminals. It can wipe away thes tear of a crying child with a piece of candy, comfort a wife who has been abused or a Mother whose child is in more trouble than anyone can ever imagine and still have more friends than it will ever know. It can shoot as straight as an arrow and live the same way. A Police Officers words can scare a criminal the way no other one can and the same Officer can soothe the fears and give comfort like no one else, it must be as hard as nails on the outside and as soft as a cloud with a huge heart on the inside."

Finally the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Police Officer, "There's a leak in this one, I told you that you were trying too hard!"

That's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear." "What's the tear for?" asked the angel.

"It's for all the bottled up emotions, for fallen comrades, for their commitment to that piece of cloth called the American flag and for Justice." "You're a genius!" said the Angel. The Lord looked at the angel and said,"I didn't put it there."

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, FOR THEY SHALL SEE HEAVEN.

Carol Jones
Friend

May 19, 2006

My heart and prayers go out to Bill's family. I met Bill in the mid 1980's when he worked with the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department. I was in high school and Bill was helping with the Explorer program, teaching teenagers about law enforcement and in many ways just being a Big Brother to us all. From the time I met Bill I had the utmost respect for him. He was a great example, and from reading other reflections I know he continued to help other young officers and citizens as well. The impression you made is one of the reasons I chose law enforcement as a career. The world has lost a true hero, but we shall all meet again someday in a better time and place. Heaven is your reward for the time you have spent in hell. God Bless You and be with your family in the days to come.

SSG Rodney Reed
TNG Counterdrug Division

May 19, 2006

Brother,
My heart grows heavy at your loss. Your passing brings near the constant threat that we face every minute. The outside world will never know the burden that we carry, but they will know that you gave your all. Rest easy now and let us stand the post of justice for a time, and know that you will never be forgotten by the tie that binds us all together.

Deputy Keith R. Bunch
Jefferson County Sheriff's Department

May 18, 2006

BILL,
I KNOW FIRST HAND WHAT A HERO YOU ARE. I WILL MISS WORKING WITH YOU. YOU ALWAYS TOOK US LESS EXPERIENCED OFFICERS UNDER YOUR WING. YOU WOULD ALWAYS TAKE ON TROUBLE HEAD ON TO TRY AND PROTECT US. YOU WILL BE MISSED BY ALL. AS I TRY TO CONTINUE ON, I WILL TRY TO MAKE SURE YOUR LEGACY LIVES ON THROUGH ALL WHO SERVE ROANE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. WE WILL NOT REST UNTILL WE SEE JUSTICE SERVED. BILL YOUR ACTIONS SAVED MANY LIVES. THANKS! FOR I WAS ONE ONE OF THOSE. I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.
YOUR FRIEND
RCSD

DEPUTY
ROANE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT.

May 18, 2006

BILL MY BIG BROTHER AND MY FRIEND (NOT BY BLOOD BUT BY HEART).AS THE PAST FEW DAYS HAVE GONE BY MY MIND HAS BEEN FLOODED WITH MEMORYS OF ALL THE GOOD TIMES WE HAD OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS OR SO, AND I FOUND MYSELF LAUGHING AS I REMBERING ALL THE PRANKS AND JOKES WE WOULD PLAY ON EACH OTHER, BUT YOU NEVER WOULD GET TO MAD OR ANGERY WITH ME. YOU WERE SERIOUS AND TOUGH WHEN IT WAS CALLED FOR BUT I KNOW IT WAS FOR MY OWN GOOD.I AM THANKFUL FOR THAT EVEN IF I NEVER SAID SO,OR ADMITTED IT TO YOU.YOU WERE THERE FOR MY WEDDING (PROUD BIG BROTHER) AND WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS BORN I CALLED YOU UNCLE BILL AND YOU SMILED SO BIG I THOUGH MY HEART WOULD BUST.THROUGH THE YEARS WE DRIFFED APART LIFE JUST GOT IN THE WAY AND I NEVER TOLD YOU HOW PROUD I WAS OF YOU(MY BIG BROTHER) BUT I WAS. YOU NEVER JUDGED ME JUST LOVED ME UNCONDISIONLY.I SAW YOU LAST ON EASTER AND WE TALKED FOR A WHILE AND WE PROMISED TO KEEP IN TOUCH,BUT YOU WERE TAKEN FROM US ALL TOO SOON AND I WILL MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH ALL OF US WILL.I LOVE YOU BIG BROTHER AND KNOW THAT YOU CAN NEVER BE REPLACED IN MY HEART.YOUR LITTLE SIS MICHELLE.

MICHELLE HARRISON
SISTER

May 18, 2006

God be with you and your family. Your duty and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Ofc. Aaron Sparks
Gilmanton NH Police

May 18, 2006

Bill, the next time we go camping it will be in Heaven. Maybe we won't set the woods on fire,again.
I already miss you very much.With Love, Jim

Jim Cross
Friend

May 18, 2006

My prayers and thought to all who knew and miss Deputy Jones.

May God lay His healing hands upon the family.

Retired Captain Joe L. Gilliland
Danville, KY PD

May 18, 2006

To the family...I am so sorry for your loss. As a former Deputy of RCSO, I knew Bill when he worked for Rockwood. He always made me laugh, something we needed a lot of. I felt so helpless when I heard the news. May God Be with You and Comfort You.

PSO J Halcomb #915
Knoxville Airport Police

May 18, 2006

MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THE FAMILY OF OFC. JONES. OFC. JONES CAN WALK THE BEAT WITH THE LORD NOW, AND WATCH OVER US HERE.

DEPUTY AND FELLOW BROTHER
CARTER COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT.

May 17, 2006

Another hero taken from the ranks of the Thin Blue Line simply for wearing the uniform. Rest in Peace Deputy Jones and thank you,,,,

Officer Thomas Wiederhold #1890
Fort Worth Police,Tx

May 17, 2006

May God Bless each one of you. My thoughts and prayers are with the family and the other officers out their protecting all of us.

May god bless each one.

Wife of
County Deputy - Tn

May 17, 2006

Sexy smile,warm heart and the soul of a lawman... forever a hero. That's how I will always remember you. Rest easy.

Lisa
wife of a Roane Co. deputy

May 17, 2006

As I read Deputy Jones' reflections I can't help but think of a close friend Deputy Jason Scott (EOW 3/12/04). We think of officers as the rough & tumble type but seeing that Deputy Jones was called Bam Bam, and Jason was called Fluffy makes us realize they are all just teddy bears in uniform.

My thoughts and prayers are with Deputy Jones & Mr Brown's families through this tough time. Hug your loved ones every day, and never take any moment for granted.

Wife of Officer
Loudon, TN

May 17, 2006

Blessed are the peacemakers. Patrol the streets of heaven now for you've served your time in hell! We will continue the fight down here, Rest in peace brother.

PTL J. CAMERON
ALCOA P.D., TN.

May 17, 2006

Bill,

thank you for all that you have done for me -- my teenage years are filled with memories of you -- you are my big brother -- you helped me stay safe through those trying years -- I love you and miss you

god bless you for your service

Hollie Wright
Friend

May 17, 2006

Rest, brother.

Cpl Steve Headley
Mishawaka, IN police

May 17, 2006

God speed my brother. Blessed be the peacekeepers

Sgt B. Franklin
Maury Co. TN.

May 17, 2006