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Article: Deputy 'wanted to help people' ; 35 years ago, Bill Morris became first Miami County deputy to die in line of duty
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- November 22, 2007
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WEST MILTON -- As a boy growing up on a farm near Richmond, Ind.,
William R. "Bill" Morris was determined to work in public safety.
At 21 in 1951, he started working for the Union police and fire
departments.
The job required him to use his own car -- with a magnetic POLICE
sign attached -- and buy his own flashing red light for the top, but
he didn't mind.
Along the way, he worked eight years with the West Milton police,
before landing his dream job as a fulltime deputy with the Miami
County Sheriff's Department in 1968.
Four years later, Bill Morris, by then a sergeant, became the
first Miami County deputy to die in the line of duty. It was Nov.
22, 1972, the evening before ...