Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Valor and vigilance are those vehicles that are vetted to honesty, integrity and the incorporation of dignity. Your character, Officer Cook, defended Dade County and its citizens with a most passionate heart and a very congenial soul. Never forgotten and you'll always be your family and department's hero for giving first class service and protection second to none. The heavens continue the lives and nobility of those souls whose wings soar as angels for eternity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 21, 2020

Once those fierce flames get going it is up to loyal and diligent public servants to extinguish those fires of ferocity that evil has sparked. You performed your roles and their responsibilities, Officer Cook, all with heroic sanctity, dignity and the honorable morals that link up integrity while battling this terrible enemy of our world. It pushed humanity to its brink and men like yourself, dedicated and determined were not going to let that occur. A blessed brother, son and husband whose soul and spirit have captured Our Creator's eyes as he looks after your humane and righteous parents too. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 21, 2020

Fun and games and clowning around all come after the serious business at hand is completed beyond satisfaction. Dade County saw you, Officer Cook, everyday helping preserve the integrity, respect and honesty of life. Your career was centered upon character, commitment to excellence in virtues and trust and the expectation of convictions to stay on the proper trails of conduct and courage. Saluted and honored as a compassionate man of devotion and goodwill. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 21, 2020

Reach for the stars in everything you do and accomplish for life one never knows one's length of days, weeks, months or years. Police work is something that is not cut out for everyone. Your gifts and life to this nation, Dade County provided a basis for stability and serenity, Officer Cook. Always a true and trusted gentleman and a hero whose legacy of honor, integrity and dignity has further keep aflame our dreams and aspirations. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 21, 2020

You surely will be reverently remembered and heroically saluted, Officer Cook, for upholding honor and bravery, dignity and integrity in the very face of adversity here in Dade County. No one forgets a man of humility and the unselfish desire to succeed beyond expectations. Our Master of mercy and compassion has your sweet and wonderful soul of character and morals patrolling His sacred and pristine gates of gallantry forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 21, 2020

Those who are deliberate deliver the goods of goodwill and the honesty that instills motivation. Your humble, noble and heroic life, Officer Cook, implanted unforgettable dignity and integrity within the corners of Dade County. Your inspirations to last forever as has your legacy and stellar character going after evil and mischief. Our Creator's bungalow of bold and brave angels sadly increases, it should not but crime and violence is what all these trusted ladies and gentleman wanted to become nothing was going to impede their progress and principles. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Dade County's folks were more than adequately protected by your cherished resources.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2020

Precious and few are the moments you spend with a loved one. Sometimes you don't even get that I mean total ignorance especially of our tranquil environment. You sheltered, saved and were decent and deserving of more time and life, Officer Cook, for having given your soul and heart of gold for six years to the people of Dade County. One afternoon just before finishing your assigned shift chaos from one disturbed fellow breaks loose, you go and answer that final call with your partner that day sacrificing everything for a spirit of peace in mind. Never forgotten and always solemnly honored for being a cherished brother to other officers and to your big sister, Nancy and a devoted husband to Karen. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2020

The lost and found department is that heavenly sphere where greatness and honorable virtue is heroically rewarded, praised and blessed in abundance. The circle of life continues for all families who strive to follow in their loved ones trails of serenity and resolve. It was the only way to function and to perform smartly for Dade County, Officer Cook, you required your entire arsenal of acumen, astuteness and awareness neve bogged down by insufficiency of dignity, integrity and the fundamental cornerstones of excellence in conviction, commitment and its endearing character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2020

That letter your mother, Officer Cook, Mrs. Julia Cook, wrote to me means more than anything and is forever a family keepsake never to be lost. You served Dade County and its citizens very richly, honorably and most heroically. To be saluted and treasured for heroism and character first rate, first class and total decency. True to your bond you stayed the course and kept sanity and civility within those venues where wickedness enjoys the hell out of beating down those doors where nothing but silence is greatly appreciated. May you and your father, Charles, rest in peace along with your mom my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2020

One day this menace and nuisance to humanity must be locked away and that key thrown away forever. Wickedness perturbs us and surely our peaceful world relished your humble affections of labor and trust, Officer Cook, uniting all Dade County in a shower of security for all mankind. A wonderful soul with a caring and intelligent heart, your heroism and resolve did more in six years than those with the same intensity of integrity and nobility could do for a lifetime. May your soul rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Cherished and never out of mind or sight.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2020

Birthdays, graduations all seem to come and go. And yet, Officer Cook, your loving family and professional colleagues of the past have not overlooked your diversity of honesty, dignity and the characters of integrity and heroic commitment to those living in and around Dade County. It's been recalled fondly for your unassuming and unwavering ferocity to circumvent those trails where violence that you sought to battle against still smulders today. You certainly did an outstanding job in all aspects of reverence, respect and resiliency. God surely looks at your sacred ledger and has proudly blessed and rewarded your distinct soul of serenity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2020

Humble, happy and handsome, yes. Honorable and heroically dignified yes. Your career and life journeys, Officer Cook, all made that noticeable impression upon Dade County and its residents. You shall never be forgotten and solemnly remembered and saluted for doing your due diligence to protect with unselfish integrity against the obstacles of torment and evil. One day freedom and liberty shall reign down upon our sacred and humane society. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2020

Your life, heart and soul, Officer Cook, were violently and rudely stolen away from your adoring family and esteemed comrades. And let there be no shadow of doubt as to your unselfish, undying and unassuming sacrifice while in command of your heroic honesty, integrity and dignity it brought its best resources to your own badge and uniform worn with wise and clear character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Cornerstones and foundations laid down solidly for our future, one that would be brighter with the presence of your smiling face and loving nature. Dade County will prevail as you helped set down those lights of hope and goodwill.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 19, 2020

God's admired flock of heroes and heroines served gallantry, honor all around their souls of pride and hearts of resolve and efficiency. You'll not be forgotten, Officer Cook, for your life and career of distinct service to the folks of Dade County. Their trails and pathways paved by morals, scruples and the values of ideas and intelligence. All the inner intuition and ingenuity that has been everlasting to a community that salutes and humbly recalls your days and years lived fruitfully. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 19, 2020

The persons in the back of the room say their peace. Those honorable, heroic and with respect they let their actions of character and integrity filter on down throughout their solemn lives of faith, devoutness and those journeys you undertook, Officer Cook, to instill happiness and harmony into Dade County. Your heart and soul were properly placed and now in eternity do you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 19, 2020

The charges are due. Ferocity and fortitude are speeding to those scenes where one good man, a brave gentleman, yourself, Officer Cook, came to assist and rescue those embroiled in a bitter domestic dispute. You did Dade County a humane and most humbly heroic service using every available tool of character, charisma and respect. Always so faithful, dignified and full of compassionate honesty and integrity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 19, 2020

Courage is humility and honor nestled as one unit. A war you fought so profoundly and so humbly on Dade County's behalf. To save the citizens and your fellow officers while putting yourself in harm's way says a lot of your esteem and cherished integrity and their reverence for dignity. Things are not totally back where they belong here, Officer Cook, although your sweet soul and spirit watched mightily over your family members and colleagues who have taken that baton of hope and goodwill and made proper use of it. The obstacles remain one day may they be extinguished forever and stability and tranquility reign down on mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 19, 2020

If faith and respect work well together then there is no reason why dignity and integrity cannot fortify one's trails in life. They surely did all that and more for your heroic soul of loyalty and character, Officer Cook, forever a legendary warrior fighting off evil here in Dade County. Always well mannered, a polished badge of boldness, a uniform sincerely donned to meet the challenging responsibilities that lied ahead. Your missions now are to guard those pearliest of gates where humility and perfection work as one. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 19, 2020

If violence could just disintegrate as the air we breathe the world will have unburdened itself many times over. Evil and wickedness are very tough to handle and to get them forever off our venues, roads and streets where peace, serenity and stability travel down. Your hopeful missions here in Dade County, Officer Cook, were to dispel doom and replace it with hope, faith, goodwill and some humble and heroic heavenly direction. The desire and dignity, the honored integrity and visionary wisdom have all been saluted and paid solemn and humane reverence for they have begun to write that future chapter of your courage and vital vigilance to mankind through the passages of resolve and loyalty. All representing our journeys to happiness and the affections of joy of which , Officer Cook, God should have allowed to to live and witness personally. Your soul and spirit all see and encircle us as an angel of God and His heavenly abode. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2020

Gliding down those slopes where security, serenity and safety all meet at the bottom where the top of your chart of character, commitment and conviction were solely enhanced and enriched by honesty, integrity and the finer points of dignity, they are surely carried your leaps and bounds protecting Dade County and its people from undue violence, evil and terror. such wickedness much be stopped and your career and life humbly heroic, Officer Cook, tended to those important matters. It was where mettle and morals coupled with concern all played that central role in our vital stability. Mankind, society and humanity feed off of each other. Your tenacious onuses proved those points of resolve and humane perseverance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2020

The boats sail. The planes fly. The trains speed down those tracks. And yet where faith and hope call we don't always know or comprehend. You forever understood the challenges and dangers that lied ahead of your humility and honor, Officer Cook. You never ran after glory nor awards. Your brightest of respect and dignity offered your caring and considerate heart of gold to gear itself to chasing and ridding the streets of treachery and its turbulence. Never forgotten for class, character and unselfish courage in the lines of fire and fiery. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Dade County where your loyalty lied, Officer Cook, is the venue where your unassuming virtue and reverence is eternally tied.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2020

To observe, remember and to celebrate one's focal points of peace and honesty in their heroic lives one just has to peer at your humble nature with that beautiful smile on your handsome face. Old Glory, the American flag begins its genesis. Dade County shares in your family's grief, sorrow and anguish over your senseless loss, Officer Cook. Sad that nothing will return you now to your beloved Karen and the rest of the Cook, Tidwell and Wilkerson clans. You paid the very virtuous and dearest of prices for Dade County and its citizens to be secured and safe from danger. Badge#1664 was meant to shield evil while delivering upon its sacred and noble words of trust, truth and timing. Humility and sanctity placed back on those golden streets that you gave your blood never in vain to bring back a semblance of vigilance and perseverance always to be cherished, respected and solemnly admired by society. Even in the darkest of moments your soul and spirit, Officer Cook, circle as an angel around our glorious universe. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. They all carry on with your legacy stamped, signed, sealed and etched in their hearts and minds forever.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2020

Drive and direction are ambition's way of telling us how to aspire and to achieve. Twenty-five years old goal oriented and with an ironclad will and heart to thrive, Officer Cook. What was menacing Dade County that tragic day and every time you went on patrol you grasped the sense of urgency to be resolute. To find a way through your vehicles of vigilance and virtue while maintaining diligence, dignity and integrity all through sound character and the heroism that was sacred and humble. That is why we salute your gallantry and ideals of truth and trust that have been laid down as a solid foundation. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Life should not have ended because of one individual's warped mind and callously heinous acts of degradation against fine and upstanding public servants looking to preserve the decency of life and its property.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2020

The price to pay is too high for most, but, for those skilled, talented and extremely heroic and humbled, honor and dignity are not what they chase after. You pursued peace and a sense of serenity in your life and career serving Dade County and its fine residents and yes the ultimate sacrifice you made on May 16, 1979, won't be forgotten. It stands as all heroes and heroines who display outstanding morals and character that tries to run after that which afflicts mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You surely, Officer Cook, were dedicated, devoted and flawlessly ferocious. It was your effort and resilient manners of work that have kept their inspirations heading forward.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2020

Fate casts that evil eye where only sinister actions lurk. You toiled and sweated very much on Dade County's behalf, Officer Cook, a role model officer whose heroism and honesty was supremely humble and very well respected and continues to remain treasured this and everyday. you threw those nets of serenity, faith and hopeful goodwill into all venues where you labored with demonstrative character, commitment to both dignity and integrity that Our Creator now blesses and rewards for eternity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2020