Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Police Officer William Coleman Cook

Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida

End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979

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Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook

Decisions that prove to be correct will in all likelihood benefit mankind. You made the right move that fateful day, Officer Cook and Dade County, your colleagues with you were all rescued by your boldness and humbly heroic bravery. No doubt the highly seasoned veteran in you came about loud and clear. A man of pride with integrity, dignity and honorable character will always be saluted and paid respects for clearing evil from our misdt and delivering a renowned sense of trust, truth and highly morals scruples. The angel wings you now wear in eternity will keep your special, loyal and esteemed heart, soul and spirit forever looking down upon your family and the citizens you watched over. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. It takes a man of real decency and class to master the nuances of being a truly excellent public and professional servant that's for sure.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 6, 2025

With everlasting love and affection for your family, Officer Cook did you so faithfully, truthfully and sound fully protect the streets, roads and avenues of Dade County the venue you called home. A hero of meaning and endearment and that you forever will be remembered for. Not a day goes by without thinking about the young man who grew up to be a gentleman of heart, soul and humility all blessed by Our Master. You remain cherished and distinguished for upstanding performance and upholding the letters of your sacred and solemn affirmation to serve us and provide peace and try your best to eliminate violence and evil, crime leaves that ugly mark that just never seems to let go of society. It's dignity, character, desired integrity, commitment all sound and never overlooked that will be saluted. for we know versatility and virtue belong to unselfish and unwavering public servants who sacrifice their angelic spirits and yours my neighbor, friend and hero hovers and watches over your giving, loving and most adored extended family members who carry tightly your legacy of appreciation, decency and driven desire to excel despite danger and peril lurking. Your acquired wisdom, vision and responsibility have been passed down humbly to others who risk themselves for our security, safety and trails and paths of perseverance, proficiency and resourcefulness. God has surely blessed your loved ones over these last forty-six years that sadly you have been missed.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 6, 2025

You were the humble, blessed and heroic young man, Officer Cook, who spearheaded loyalty, esteem and virtue from within your unselfish and unwavering heart and soul. Combined they created a more securer and safer climate here in Dade Couny where your legacy stands tall and proud. No one will ever forget you and all the character. honor, dignity and integrity you summoned to make goodwill and dedication forever a success. Those who have taken your watch must carry their valor and virtue as well as you mightily did to accomplish and as your family blessed and heroic angel may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Vehicles travel so long as truth and trust reside in their tanks of tenacity and proper conduct.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 6, 2025

Determination causes dedication to rise to the top. Your integrity, dignity and honesty, Officer Cook, reflected the heroism of your heart and soul as you pounded the pavement patrolling Dade County and its folks. You'll surely be solemnly saluted and remembered fondly for virtue, character and true and trusted commitment and conviction. An angel whose unselfish and unwavering decency and desire were all versatile and quite terrific. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Heaven is where loyalty, esteem and cherished work ethics lie. Never forgotten and always such a charismatic man of faith, resiliency and effort.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 5, 2025

Validated and dedicated, your life and career, Officer Cook, shall be forever saluted and honored for your heroic endeavors serving the people of Dade County. It's where safety, serenity and security came about through devotion, resourcefulness and uplifting faithfulness through perilous times. Dignity forthright. Integrity incorporated within the unwavering and most unselfish heart and soul of an angel of virtue, vision and wise versatility handling onus with true to form trustworthiness. You made the commitment and your character was loyal, esteemed, cherished and above reproach. You won't be forgotten as your loving family carries the torch of your legacy in their everyday lives where your inspiration and aspiration meet diligence and vigilance together forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 4, 2025

A solid, safe and sensible hero, gentleman and a charismatic and first class human being who solidified Dade County with valor being your vehicles, Officer Cook, to versatility, capability and certainly loyal and esteemed onuses all undertaken with God's heavenly and divine name inscribed within the walls of unselfish, unwavering yet most passionate dignity, integrity and highly outstanding and blessed honesty, character to go along with both truthful and trustworthy commitments to excel despite facing evil and dangers of society. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 3, 2025

The constitution of a person spells out their honesty, character and dignified integrity. Yours, Officer Cook, spelled out your heroic journeys on this earth serving and protecting the good people of Dade County bringing peace and stability closer to their castles where serenity shall reign. Now and forever an angel of virtue, vision, wisdom, morals and values may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Never forgotten and always solemnly saluted for vehicles of responsibility and due diligence.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 3, 2025

Blessed with character, commitment and a humanely humble conviction, your heart and soul of heroism, Officer Cook, served and saved Dade County and provided our peace of mind, missions of serenity and security all because you cared, were compassionate most of all unselfish and unwavering. Integrity, dignity and honesty always so loyal, cherished and esteemed and surely never forgotten. You are to be saluted for virtue, sacred responsibilities put forward to establish our purposes in life. Your professionalism and upstanding respect, diligence and due vigilance always were outstanding and for eternity your angel wings support your rise higher and higher to heaven where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 2, 2025

A man with a golden heart and heroic soul who galvanized Dade County his beloved home and humbly blessed community with peace, stability and a passion for our purposes to move forward though, Officer Cook, those very same rights should have been afforded to you. Violence and one extremely evil man robbed you of your honor, dignity and integrity you will not be forgotten and will be solemnly saluted for virtue, sacred journeys of respect and unselfishness placed in harm's way to protect us. Character, commitment and conviction are all linked to your trust, truth and paths of diligence and vigilance following the same roads of resolve. A real first class gentleman of dedication, inspiration and wisdom all and forever loyal, esteemed and truly treasured by your loved ones who share in your legacy insuring it will never end. Forty-six years ago your sacrifice has stood as that marker of prosperity and patience all unwavering and all unrelenting. Monday is your colleague and friend, Keith DiGenova's seventy-third birthday and that of Kenneth his twin brother. You would wish him happiness. So sad you cannot be here to share the most happiest and blessed moments with Karen and your family you are their angel who is watching from above as you rest in peace my friend, neighbor, and hero. A word not to be taken lightly. Dade County and its residents have missed you very much as has your family.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 1, 2025

The wise give knowledge and humility all from their heroically blessed hearts and souls of virtue, sanctity and responsibility. The more placed upon you, Officer Cook, the more your service and protection of Dade County was validated. Sincere integrity, character, dedication, goodwill, dignity and having honesty upon you surely made us much more safer and securer. Though you'll forever be cherished, missed and saluted living as a special and precious angel of gallantry. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 28, 2025

You were a morally faithful, devout and heroic public servant, Officer Cook and Dade County can never truly repay its debt and admiration for what you meant to them, your family and comrades who shared their humility, hearts and souls working with you. Because it's located in the words of virtue, valor, sacred versatility and vision that made you who you were and you were the perfect son to your esteemed and beloved parents may they too rest in peace along with you my neighbor, friend and hero. an angel of integrity, character, dignity and honesty that was very gifted to protect us and provide our safety and everlasting security and freedoms.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 27, 2025

The paths of perseverance and the trails of tenacity were paved and blazed here in Dade County by you, Officer Cook. A most well liked and reverent public servant who steered safety and security in this community where your esteem, loyalty and virtue were genuinely truthful and most sincerely trustworthy. A man of faith living by morals, values, ethics and principles all supported by character, commitment and conviction, the dignity, integrity and honesty all poignantly saluted and surely humbly blessed and never forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 26, 2025

Your special talents, Officer Cook, were extra in that God blessed and paved your life and professional trails and paths with a humble heart and soul that remains heroically cherished and loyal. Dade County certainly received great care, compassion and diligent protection by a gentleman of faith, devotion and determination. A young man with strong character, commitment to succeed and convictions all truly worthwhile and most trustworthy. Dignity and integrity incorporated into honesty and accentuated by virtue, wisdom and understanding your dangerous and most difficult roles of onus. An angel, may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Surely missed by your comrades and most importantly missed from your family and never forgotten as we salute the precious spirit that made missions of goodwill and humbleness forever honored.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 25, 2025

A police officer is supposed to be many things. Among them is courteous and decent. But, honesty, integrity and dignity above all must be as fundamentally as sound as one's own character, commitment and convictions. Yours, Officer Cook, were heroic, loyal, treasured and forevermore esteemed. Dade County ever forget you and the life and career you undertook to serve and protect the public. Stability, peace and liberty are necessary conduits to our very purposeful pursuits in life as your family demonstrates this fact each day by taking the torch of your legacy true and trustworthy with them wherever they travel to. You'll be saluted for valid virtue, wisdom and vision all going down the tracks, trails and paths of righteousness, resourcefulness and unselfish faithfulness to mankind as their angel now looking down upon them. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 24, 2025

You shined like a diamond and were gifted with a golden heart, heroic and humble, all blessed by God. Really a sad day when this man of evil took you from this world, your adoring family and loyal comrades, Officer Cook. But truth be told your trustworthiness and tenacity were vehicles of your valor, vision and virtue so dependable and determined. That is precisely why Dade County and its folks were blessed and kept safe when violence rang out. A gentleman blessed with integrity, dignity and honesty all born from character, conviction and commitments so vitally essential to our purposes in life. Your family carries your sacred and humane legacy forward in their everyday lives as your eternal life serves as the motivating inspiration of ingenuity, intuition and intelligence all direct and respectful. And always so faithful, devoted and accentuated in your paths and trails of justice and unselfish morals, scruples and the highest of professional principles and standards. Capable, noble and authentically esteemed. The lights always stay on as your heart, soul and spirit shine on above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Others who carry on with your assignments do so with caring compassion and humility uplifting their heroic hearts.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 23, 2025

Your response to a dire and perilous situation that day, Officer Cook, was of course heroic, but it was forevermore revered, honorable and loyal. To be recognized as a cherished man and public servant speaks volumes regarding your dignity, integrity and humbly blessed and angelic character, commitment to true justice and trustworthy convictions all sincerely unwavering and unselfish. You will be saluted for having the aptitude, capability and resiliency for aiding your comrades who were in danger. A great gentleman tragically taken before his time. Our days are of destiny and possessing loyalty and humble esteem to be available to conquer what is never too simple. Badge#1664 was about leading with confidence, humble by nature and by always staying aware of the surrounding conditions. Keith if you read these reflections for your friend and colleague, Bill Cook, Officer William Coleman Cook, know they are written with the best of Our Creator's name. You were devout, faithful and dedicated. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your family's beloved and treasured angel of wisdom and virtue shining down upon them for eternity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 23, 2025

Your parents, Officer Cook, raised you and your big sister, Nancy to be honorable, dignified and have integrity in your hearts and souls. Such a grand man, heroic and full of unselfish and unwavering character, conviction and commitment so loyal and faithful. Dade County has its peace because of crusaders willing to step up to the plates of vigilance, diligence and respect which you humbly earned and were blessed with. Safety, security and serenity sometimes extract a very tragic yet a noble sacrifice that you made yet you had many more decades of vitality and life ahead with your beloved wife, Karen. To think about being married for fifty productive and blissful years together and to have that robbed by a heinous man of no reverence, remorse or a clue of his actions senseless and callous that took away a wonderfully truthful and trustworthy public servant a professional of total class, decency, desire and angelic dedication making their patrols around your beloved community where your legacy grows. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 22, 2025

Attitude and thanks are some of a hero's declarations. Yours, Officer Cook, was security and safety for Dade County folks and you'll never be forgotten for bravery, virtue, dignity and integrity all supporting honesty and the paths and trails of true and trusted justice you pursued everyday as your department and family's golden angel. Your legacy of accountability, reliability and faithfulness will be carried on by those who have succeeded you. Big shoes to fill fighting peril and danger. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Always cherished, loyal and esteemed.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 22, 2025

Your heroic loyalty, appreciation and fortitude, Officer Cook, served and protected Dade County and its residents with all heart, soul and your spirit which is forever in heaven looking down on your loving family and faithful colleagues. It was your unselfish character, commitment and conviction all true and trustworthy just your honesty, dignity and integrity. An angel who was essential and valued as a professional day in and day out with bringing us peace, freedom and stability. Virtue, versatility and sacred missions put forth. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 21, 2025

The roles of resourcefulness, resiliency and reverent are just that. One must work to earn the respect of one's peers, your comrades, Officer Cook, who fought and battled evil here in Dade County where your heroic legend of honesty, dignity and integrity has grown by leaps and bounds because our peace, stability was created by your unselfish and unwavering actions everyday and especially on May 16,1979 when you made the ultimate sacrifice of virtue, versatility, onus and character making your commitments and convictions as clear as day. Just trust and truth cannot alone fight adversity and your angelic heart, soul and spirit look down upon your family and community as they carry forward your aspirations and inspirations. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Diligent and most vigilant was how you comprehended your noble and sacred roles all journeys undertaken willingly with admiration, loyalty and esteem.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 20, 2025

Simplicity can be complexity sometimes. You dealt with all circumstances, dilemmas and various situations, Officer Cook, in a disciplined and defined manner. You will always be a loyal, esteemed and a cherished hero of Dade County who spoke and acted with decency, desire and class. Dedication from a man of scruples, values and morals. Courteous and dignified, your integrity and honesty was well documented and clearly ahead of the crowd. Your colleagues, family and friends have all missed very much and you'll always be saluted for virtue, versatility, visibility and vision. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel who hovers over his family and beloved community.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 19, 2025

A gentle soul of a heroic young man and that you will forever be respected, saluted and solemnly remembered for, Officer Cook. More than a Dade County legend and public servant who brought instant sustainability and stability to your beloved home and community where you shall be cherished and so humbly honored for eternity. The gentleman with character, conviction and stoic commitment that protected us from violence, evil and bloodshed and your faithful, loyal and dignified sacrifice of integrity and virtue remain fastened to our very castles you poignantly watched over as your family's angel. As you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero, it will be truth and trustworthiness that lead your patrols of goodwill, hope and unselfish diligence. Effort and proficiency spoke volumes just as ability, responsibility supported each tone of sacred tenacity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2025

The onus of public servants is to be honorable in their solemn commitments to family and humanity. To keep us safe and secure requires everything to be in top working order not to mention your integrity, dignity and character must be above and beyond reproach just as yours, Officer Cook, was supremely loyal and esteemed to be saluted and remembered for its heroic actions to rescue your comrades and Dade County residents from further danger. You performed in an outstanding manner and gave every sacred endeavor to benefit us and won't ever be forgotten. Truth and trust going down the trails and paths where unselfish and unwavering perseverance brought clarity to your dedicated and faithfully executed journeys and missions in which your heart and soul all are forever angelic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Badge#1664 was widely reverent and did its vigilance as only a valiant man would do.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 18, 2025

Dependability takes great valor. Meaning to face danger and evil you must submit your unselfish and unwavering heart and soul to the will of Our Creator and He'll never let you down. God carried your life, Officer Cook, humble and blessed as it was and shall always be as you lookdown upon your family as their heroic angel. Dade County witnessed a young man blessed and loyal with vitality, vision and virtue driving your sacred vehicles of versatility, wisdom and everything in the words of honesty, integrity and dignity. Other peace and safety could not be created otherwise. You shall be saluted and never forgotten acting as you did on May 16,1979 and everyday your strong heart was beating. The streets were kept safe for your outstanding performance from a truly and trustworthy team leader. The solemn homage you continue to earn is for being esteemed and diligent in your perseverance over your beloved community where home really meant something to be treasured. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 17, 2025

Officer Cook, where would your family and Dade County be today without a hero of heart, humbleness, integrity, dignity and character if not for truth, trust and fortitude? Our very prosperity and serenity came about because of your faithfulness, dedication and honesty all blessed now and forever as an angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 17, 2025

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