A final dispatch

As is tradition, one last police radio transmission Saturday morning honored the memory of inmate transportation deputy and former Marion police chief Don Keazer, who died Dec. 2 at age 72.

Sheriff: 110, Marion. Go ahead.

Dispatcher: Marion sheriff to 108, deputy Don Keazer.

Marion sheriff to 108, deputy Don Keazer.

[Silence]

108, deputy Don Keazer, served the citizens of Marion County for over 35 years from the Marion police department to the Marion County sheriff’s department.

Go rest high on that mountain and be at peace while knowing that, while you are gone, you will never be forgotten.

We’ll take the watch from here, 108 Don Keazer.

10-7.

Marion concluding, 10:47.