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Article: CARVED IN GRANITE HUERFANO COUNTY DEPUTY AND OTHER LAWMEN SOON MAY BE MEMORIALIZED.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- May 14, 1998
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Byline: John C. Ensslin Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
LITTLETON -- For six decades, Fidel Aguirre's children have passed down the story of how their father - a proud sheriff's deputy in Huerfano County - died in a brutal beating outside a Gardner dance hall in May 1938.
``Everybody grows up with a daddy, but mine was cut short,'' Fidel Aguirre Jr. said last week, looking at an antique picture of his parents on their wedding day.
The family's oral tradition keeps the memories alive, but the state has never officially marked Aguirre's death. That may soon change.
With a new policy, Aguirre and about 32 other men whose names were left ...