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Joe and Patricia were Valley in July of 1976, and Joe went to work
married on June 14 , at the L.A. County Sheriff’s office, patrolling
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1968. They met in Beverly Hills, for six months. In 1983, he went
church in Torrance to work at the Simi Valley Police Department as
when she was 15, a patrolman, SWAT team member, and finally,
and Joe was twenty. a detective. He said, “I had several close calls
Joe and Pat had four and an ugly homicide in 1983 which led me to
children, two boys retire.”
and two girls.
Pat was born in Littlefield, and “she wanted to
Joe attended El move back to West Texas” as her parents lived in
Camino Junior Lubbock. Joe laughingly noted that “Texas girls
College where he may leave Texas, but after a 35-year vacation,
tested for law school. they want to move back home.” Joe went on
He was admitted to the 2017 Texas South Plains Honor Flight after
the West Los Angeles hearing about it from a veteran who’d gone on
School of Law and an earlier flight. His favorite memorial was the
eventually graduated in 1975 with a Doctor of Vietnam Wall because he “had friends’ names on
Jurisprudence. He worked for Hughes Aircraft the wall.” He wants to be remembered for his
for nine years in the Security and Education love of God, family and country.
Department. He and Pat bought a house in Simi

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