A area people is mourning the dying of a veteran deputy.
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As reported on Information Middle 7 at 6:00, Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Longfellow handed away on Sunday morning after a battle with pancreatic most cancers.
A Cones with Cops fundraiser was held on Sunday.
The preliminary function was to boost cash for his household as he battled most cancers.
However simply hours earlier than the occasion, it was introduced that Deputy Longfellow had handed away.
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Information Middle 7’s Malik Patterson attended the fundraiser on Sunday on the Dairy Station. He spoke with Greene County Sheriff Scott Anger.
Patterson mentioned a number of folks got here to pay respect to the household and get good ice cream.
Anger advised Patterson that he had identified Longfellow for many years and was an incredible individual.
“I bear in mind him as a firefighter, as a dispatcher, dispatching to me to calls once I was a younger officer. Only a man that’s been concerned in a group. He’s only a public servant. He’s a man who all the time places himself earlier than everybody else.”
Patterson mentioned that Deputy Longfellow started Cones with Cops years in the past to bridge a spot with kids locally.
He wished them to know that they didn’t should concern legislation enforcement.
We are going to proceed to replace this story.
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