[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 13174]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        A TRIBUTE TO HUEY HAVARD

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                             HON. MIKE ROSS

                              of arkansas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 16, 2002

  Mr. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Huey 
Havard, the top law enforcement officer for nearly 10 years in Union 
County. Sheriff Havard died Sunday, June 23, 2002 after a long struggle 
with liver cancer. He was 63.
  Sheriff Havard took office in 1993 but his career in law enforcement 
began three decades earlier as a 25-year-old patrolman for the El 
Dorado Police Department. It was then Havard found he had an unending 
passion to serve and protect the people he knew and loved in Union 
County. He had the distinction of being one of the first narcotics 
officers at the El Dorado Police Department and over the years he 
served as a motorcycle patrolman, commander of the patrol division, and 
in the detective division, climbing the ranks to sergeant, lieutenant, 
and finally captain.
  Havard was named the city's officer of the year in 1973 and served as 
interim chief of police for a few months before taking a patrol 
deputy's assignment at the sheriff's office in 1983. During his tenure, 
Havard increased the number of patrol deputies and began 12-hour shifts 
for deputies to allow for better patrol coverage. He also assigned 
deputies to work full-time with the 13th Judicial District Drug Task 
Force.
  Sheriff Havard was an honorable, driven, and passionate law officer. 
He was an amazing man, and an asset to Union County. I understand that 
this is a difficult time for his wife, Cathy, his mother, Eva, two 
daughters, Shondra and Laura, stepdaughter, Michele, and all of his 
many friends and relatives whom he loved dearly. They are in my heart 
and in my prayers.
  Huey Havard will be missed greatly. His legacy of hard work, 
determination, and love of people will live on in the lives he touched 
and changed forever.

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