Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Police Officer William Coleman Cook

Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida

End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979

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Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook

Service to your country, your community and to your esteemed and most faithfully honest family, Officer Cook, you are certain to be saluted and honored for being composed and sincerely dignified and with a sterling integrity that fought those demanding battles here in Dade County. A man whose heroic feats are legendary and one who will always be fondly and solemnly remembered for having a brave heart and soul of virtue and humility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2021

Seniority does not absolve one from responsibility. Such ability and capabilities are directly tied to a person's honesty, integrity and dignity which forever linked them to their community where they serve. You protected and gave your esteemed and cherished life, Officer Cook, for service to Dade County and its people. With upstanding character, commitment to passion, purpose and a cause, your excellent convictions and trustworthiness were those branches of our freedoms and liberties which mankind cannot ever take for granted. Humility, a smile and a serene heart of loyalty, faith and devotion to be sincerely honored and paid a solemn salute. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2021

You try to prevent and head off any signs of trouble. But, the tasks at hand and solemn onuses do not conclude there. It can be more than eight hours a day if that is what's required. Snowy can be blanketing an area leaving roads filled with ice, the jobs must never stop. Dignity, character, reverence and loyalty must be applied every second never losing track of integrity or intuition. You persevered Officer Cook, by using vision, wisdom, common sense and all the versatility of virtue and humbleness in performing your most faithful of responsibilities and you'll never be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2021

If one pill alone could cure society's ailments that won't ever happen without the good work of all women and men duly determined to end this abyss of awful evil. Dade County cannot continue living in fear and your years of vigilance and due diligence delivered a newer level of comfort and calmness within the streets where honesty, integrity and dignity shall grace themselves every second upon those desiring a newer lease on life and its health, happiness and prosperity. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. You can only control your limits and area you tried that very tragic day, Officer Cook,to restore safety and serenity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2021

Years of yearning, days of dignity, months of mettle, weeks of welcome courage all brought hope, goodwill and an esteemed outlook to Dade County where your career and life seemed destined for elevation. Now a part of the stars at night, may your soul and heart of honor,dignity and the integrity all essential to humility serve as our guiding light for society to march forward with their journeys of resourcefulness. Officer Cook, you are and forever a hero of endeavor and shining resolve and you took responsibility and accountability to heart as a serious minded servant of Our Lord. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2021

Show heart and consideration, display dedication and you'l find your paths and trails of justice easier to travel down. You always kept a positive and upbeat fortitude about your badge and uniform, Officer Cook. So many have remembered your valor, versatility and virtue which helped to protect the citizens of Dade County where you toiled and were most passionate. The wars and their flames of infamy still rage on, but truth, trust and humility somehow must carry one's accentuated patrols. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2021

Being lazy and not caring will never suffice in this never ceasing attack of violence over us. Your friendship and likable nature, Officer Cook, brought peaceful shelters to Dade County's folks. Such an upstanding and outstanding public servant, your career and life exemplified the finer fabrics of good morals and conduct certainly becoming an officer. Your honor, integrity and dignity all faced evil and adversity with an attitude of all heart and soul digging into fight those battles of humanity which sorely misses you as does your beloved family members. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2021

You just try to be safe, smart and extremely humble when performing your sacred duties and their earthliest of missions. Dade County was the locale of your service and protection of its citizens, Officer Cook and hero of his family and close knit peers. Dignity, integrity and honesty all were put forth faithfully and fairly among mankind where your unassuming character, respectful commitments and their trusted convictions from your brave heart and soul will forever be saluted and honored. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2021

All public servants who ever wear a badge and a crisp uniform know one thing, putting lives ahead of your own to make peace a lasting stability in any and all communities. Dade County is no different and your rightful place, Officer Cook, will be right up front and center with all of its heroes and heroines of virtue, proper conduct and an honesty so endearing just as your dignity, integrity and valid intuitions all now have heaven's perfect attention as you will always be cherished, admired and a man of trust and passion not just swaying in the wind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2021

Class and dedication pressed full steam ahead. Never once running, dodging or shying away from adversity that must be stopped at once. Officer Cook, you were a sincere and a most trusted man, so consummate and concerned for Dade County's welfare, you gave your life and career of morals, the obligations of utilizing, integrity, ingenuity and positive dignity to further mankind's trails and paths of perseverance while keeping everything from being derailed. A life is special and so was your virtue, vigilance and due diligence. The steps of an angel recognized for heroism and heart. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2021

To create is to make an impression,does not matter the size, just something small to begin its genesis and hope that society will one day realize a total harmony where bloodshed and hatred will abdicate their thrones of terror to tranquility and its havens of humility,strength and heart. Your beloved and blessed soul, Officer Cook, weaved its way through the corridors of a community that you lived in. Dade County unfortunately won't ever see badge#1664 again because of one evil man. It will however witness your enrichment, enhancement and truthful commitment still being noticeably felt and for generation after generation the faith, hopeful goodwill will once again rise to the top. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2021

Rain has not dampened your family's spirits and their pursuits of peace, happiness and good health. You were a good son, brother and a loving husband, Officer Cook, a hero of your family and for the residents of Dade County to forever remember and to salute for channeling your entire being into making tranquility more than a household word. Violence and evil change the structure of our world and it was up to a gentleman of your humane persona to see change through, to correlate dignity with integrity and to objectively utilize your fine and outstanding character to create and to form a lasting bond between all people. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A cornerstone and a foundation genuinely placed by a man of heart and courage striving for wisdom,vision and clarity beyond your maturity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2021

Police work is not magic and its hidden tricks. But one tick of the clock tells us it's time to search for some semblance of security and safe passageways for the public at large. Dade County is a large metropolitan community and it required all of your devoted resources, Officer Cook, to kept it safe and sound. To protect, you had to have heart, soul and a passion beating simultaneously in order for the restoration of law and order to take its rightful place among mankind. Your tireless endeavor led to a better tomorrow yet one brighter future if you were here today enjoying your what should have been deserved retirement. Honesty, integrity and dignity are those principles of faith, hope and goodwill that never left you my neighbor, friend and hero. Rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2021

Adversity can only enhance and reinforce one's own balance of tenacity. It's often found in the genes of a most beloved public servant like yourself, Officer Cook, who heroically served the streets and avenues of Dade County with an abundance of care, concern and a loving heart and soul. This is true humbleness as was your unwavering and most unselfish dignity and integrity always carried with proper character, commitment and conviction. You will not be forgotten for having the uplifting maintenance that has prevailed today though we are a little less safe because of your absence. Heaven has an angel of quality, versatility and virtue all sacred, noble and serenely civil. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2021

The seats in eternity are warmed by your welcome embrace, Officer Cook, just that your family could have for sure used those smiling greetings here today until that time. Your last day my neighbor, friend and hero was probably no different than other days when you left your home to go to work saying goodbye to your beloved wife, Karen. So much honesty,ingenuity and intrigue that always seems to greet its servants of esteem and loyalty. Dade County was your place and its folks were well served by a man of humility and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 6, 2021

Eternity is the very final destination for the heroic, devoted and dignified hearts and souls of mankind. A place perfect and peaceful with no more hurt,pain and anguish around those who gave their lives and careers for prosperity, happiness and health. They were all created by your energy, unselfish conduct and the integrity, dignity and commitments to excellence that are were prideful and proficient. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero, Officer Cook. Dade County shines on with your soul and spirit continuing their journeys above.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 6, 2021

Blessed and so endearing, your life and career, Officer Cook, all humanely humble and honest allowed Dade County to cherish its life in peace without all this senseless violence permeating around our very community. A place that salutes integrity, dignity and the character of a truly wise and righteous human being. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 6, 2021

What you begin you should be allowed to finish. But, God saw other heavenly plans for a man, a gentleman of legendary foundations who established a rapport with those residents of Dade County whom you served and watched over, Officer Cook, with everlasting honesty, a fulfilled ferocity, dignity that was destined for more sacred earthly missions and integrity that kept on preserving and with your tireless virtue you'll not be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 6, 2021

A heart soft and gentle yet very caring, concerned and quite giving. The people of Dade County got the message and have hopefully learned the lessons of hope and goodwill you truthfully imparted upon their souls and hearts, Officer Cook. Reverence and dedication that deserved more life and were duly essential to your performance of your humble duties. Humility and challenges, they all lie ahead of us. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 6, 2021

All we as citizens can pray and hope for is goodwill, faith and devoutness that nestles itself when our humility and heart. Yours, Officer Cook, was serene, humble and most heroic. Dade County was protected with a regular amount of respect, dignity and the integrity that stood face to face and toe to toe against the likes of adversity and evil. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of character and virtue. versatility and civility that keeps the flames of God's heavenly abode aflame.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 6, 2021

You cannot reverse those thrusts on your engines of energy, effort and efficiency. The throttles of power and perseverance must continue to churn forward. And with your tireless heart and soul of esteem, friendship and loyalty, Officer Cook, they went heroically forward sparing Dade County must worse violence and its just sad, tragic and senseless why you were taken from family, your brave comrades and a plethora of friends from all around our country. Such a caring man with a smile and charisma so deep entrenched within the streets of your community where its people pay respect to you,salute you and offer the comforting words of humility for a gentleman who graced this land nearly sixty-eight years ago. You would have sixty-eight on November 30 of this year. Years, decades all time and its set of circumstances keeps moving forward as God blesses your most admired spirit and humbly celebrated name. Fortune and fate were crossed and God saw your destinies here as finished and has assigned you my neighbor, friend and hero a new position and that is to guard His gates of perfection as one of His many heroic angels.Rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 5, 2021

Humane inspiration all the result from earthly missions to benefit the enhancement of humanity, all your life and career, Officer Cook, was founded upon not only loyalty, it was bounded by honesty, reverence and dignity's fortitude that was spread out upon your decency and integrity. Dade County was the venue where your avenues of acumen, astuteness and awareness crossed those humbly paved roads of truth and trust. Such undying faith all tireless from your golden heart and soul both of humility which applied the coats of courage to our very harmony not to be forgotten as we salute you, Officer Cook, heroism shall never die it has been transferred to heaven to serve its angelic purposes forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 5, 2021

The scales of justice must not be weighed down by deceit, conceit and a general lack of disrespect and unprofessional public servants patrolling our streets. Your trust, truth and nobility, Officer Cook, carried the messages, words and humble affirmations of everything dignified with integrity and humility from honor and sanctity. Dade County was not just a trip, it was an earthly missions bonded with the cores of scruples and morals to create that lasting meaning of why good people must serve. Gid intended for your life to follow down these paths, trails and roads where resolve,resiliency and responsibility greeted you at each venue, not only your loyalty and smile both very much absent and missed sincerely. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 5, 2021

Leverage does not always work and so other methods and means must be amplified to produce a positive result. You put Dade County on your humble, heroic and honored shoulders, Officer Cook and because of your tireless energy and heart produced a semblance of peace, prosperity and happiness for its folks never to be overlooked. Such a gentleman must be given his salutes of valor, vigilance and for having a virtue of caring, character and the principles of devoutness that were unwavering yet compassionate. Generations form those close knit to our very future as our serenity means just that. It's a crying shame your life was wickedly taken my neighbor, friend and hero as you deserved to live on sharing a long and healthy retirement with your most beloved Karen. Rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 5, 2021

The shining star of mankind emancipating us from wickedness and the gloom that sadly still infiltrates our very humanity. You are very much missed, Officer Cook, but forever you remain your family's warrior and hero whose blessed soul and spirit are always going to be watched by Our Creator who has His heroes and heroines safeguarded forevermore. Heaven, humility, commitment and truth lie in the beds of trust,integrity and dignity of which yours my neighbor, friend and hero came from everything bountiful and bold. Rest in peace. Dade County will never be the same without you.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 5, 2021

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