Indianapolis, Indiana newspaper October 29, 1976:
Col Ronald F Bryant Dies;
Col Ronald Franklin Bryant, 40, second in command to Marion County Sheriff Lawrence F Broderick and holder of every rank from clerk to colonel in the department since joining in 1957, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital.
Selected in 1975 by Sheriff Broderick as executive officer, Col Bryant earlier in his career had served five years in that position.
From 1971 to 1973, while on leave of absence from the department, he was safety director at Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He returned to the department in January 1975 as Broderick's executive officer.
He was a recipient in June of the 11th District American Legion's Policeman of the Year award. The Police League of Indiana also named him 1976 Police Officer of the Year.
A soft-spoken man, Col Bryant fulfilled a lifelong ambition in October 1975 when he was sworn into the Indiana bar after completing six years of part-time law study at the Indianapolis Law School.
He first enrolled in the law school in 1969. In April 1973 he was stricken with multiple myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer. Six months later he developed chronic kidney disease.
He had to drop out of school three times because of his illness. He underwent kidney dialysis during the day and attended law classes at night while maintaining his full-time job in law enforcement.
He started work with the sheriff's department in 1956 as a dispatcher. In 1966 he was promoted to major and executive officer of the department, a post he held until going to IPI.
A Democrat, Col Bryant unsuccessfully sought the party's nomination for sheriff in 1974 and three years earlier failed in a bid for a City-County Council seat.
He was selected last August as a citizen member of a state legislative committee studying the Unification of Marion County Police Forces.
A lifelong resident of Indianapolis he graduated from Ben Davis High School in 1954 and was a member of the Marine Corps Reserve from 1954 to 1962 and a graduate of Indiana Central University.
He had been a member of Chapel Rock Christian Church, Police League of Indiana, Deputy Sheriff Fraternal Organization Lodge 1, Fraternal Order of Police and Wayne Township Fire Department.
Also, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and 19th District Democrat Club.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs Patty Bryant; a daughter, Miss Sherri L Bryant; a son, Ronald Alan Bryant; and his parents, Mr & Mrs Frank Bryant, all of Indianapolis.
Services will be held at 10 am Saturday in the church with burial in Lincoln Memory Gardens at Zionsville. Friends may call from 2 pm to 10 pm today in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home.
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The above article and birth/death information from:
Charlene Clark Harmon
Ben Davis High School Class of 1954 Historian
Col Ronald F Bryant Dies;
Col Ronald Franklin Bryant, 40, second in command to Marion County Sheriff Lawrence F Broderick and holder of every rank from clerk to colonel in the department since joining in 1957, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital.
Selected in 1975 by Sheriff Broderick as executive officer, Col Bryant earlier in his career had served five years in that position.
From 1971 to 1973, while on leave of absence from the department, he was safety director at Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He returned to the department in January 1975 as Broderick's executive officer.
He was a recipient in June of the 11th District American Legion's Policeman of the Year award. The Police League of Indiana also named him 1976 Police Officer of the Year.
A soft-spoken man, Col Bryant fulfilled a lifelong ambition in October 1975 when he was sworn into the Indiana bar after completing six years of part-time law study at the Indianapolis Law School.
He first enrolled in the law school in 1969. In April 1973 he was stricken with multiple myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer. Six months later he developed chronic kidney disease.
He had to drop out of school three times because of his illness. He underwent kidney dialysis during the day and attended law classes at night while maintaining his full-time job in law enforcement.
He started work with the sheriff's department in 1956 as a dispatcher. In 1966 he was promoted to major and executive officer of the department, a post he held until going to IPI.
A Democrat, Col Bryant unsuccessfully sought the party's nomination for sheriff in 1974 and three years earlier failed in a bid for a City-County Council seat.
He was selected last August as a citizen member of a state legislative committee studying the Unification of Marion County Police Forces.
A lifelong resident of Indianapolis he graduated from Ben Davis High School in 1954 and was a member of the Marine Corps Reserve from 1954 to 1962 and a graduate of Indiana Central University.
He had been a member of Chapel Rock Christian Church, Police League of Indiana, Deputy Sheriff Fraternal Organization Lodge 1, Fraternal Order of Police and Wayne Township Fire Department.
Also, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and 19th District Democrat Club.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs Patty Bryant; a daughter, Miss Sherri L Bryant; a son, Ronald Alan Bryant; and his parents, Mr & Mrs Frank Bryant, all of Indianapolis.
Services will be held at 10 am Saturday in the church with burial in Lincoln Memory Gardens at Zionsville. Friends may call from 2 pm to 10 pm today in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home.
***
The above article and birth/death information from:
Charlene Clark Harmon
Ben Davis High School Class of 1954 Historian
Indianapolis, Indiana newspaper October 29, 1976:
Col Ronald F Bryant Dies;
Col Ronald Franklin Bryant, 40, second in command to Marion County Sheriff Lawrence F Broderick and holder of every rank from clerk to colonel in the department since joining in 1957, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital.
Selected in 1975 by Sheriff Broderick as executive officer, Col Bryant earlier in his career had served five years in that position.
From 1971 to 1973, while on leave of absence from the department, he was safety director at Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He returned to the department in January 1975 as Broderick's executive officer.
He was a recipient in June of the 11th District American Legion's Policeman of the Year award. The Police League of Indiana also named him 1976 Police Officer of the Year.
A soft-spoken man, Col Bryant fulfilled a lifelong ambition in October 1975 when he was sworn into the Indiana bar after completing six years of part-time law study at the Indianapolis Law School.
He first enrolled in the law school in 1969. In April 1973 he was stricken with multiple myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer. Six months later he developed chronic kidney disease.
He had to drop out of school three times because of his illness. He underwent kidney dialysis during the day and attended law classes at night while maintaining his full-time job in law enforcement.
He started work with the sheriff's department in 1956 as a dispatcher. In 1966 he was promoted to major and executive officer of the department, a post he held until going to IPI.
A Democrat, Col Bryant unsuccessfully sought the party's nomination for sheriff in 1974 and three years earlier failed in a bid for a City-County Council seat.
He was selected last August as a citizen member of a state legislative committee studying the Unification of Marion County Police Forces.
A lifelong resident of Indianapolis he graduated from Ben Davis High School in 1954 and was a member of the Marine Corps Reserve from 1954 to 1962 and a graduate of Indiana Central University.
He had been a member of Chapel Rock Christian Church, Police League of Indiana, Deputy Sheriff Fraternal Organization Lodge 1, Fraternal Order of Police and Wayne Township Fire Department.
Also, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and 19th District Democrat Club.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs Patty Bryant; a daughter, Miss Sherri L Bryant; a son, Ronald Alan Bryant; and his parents, Mr & Mrs Frank Bryant, all of Indianapolis.
Services will be held at 10 am Saturday in the church with burial in Lincoln Memory Gardens at Zionsville. Friends may call from 2 pm to 10 pm today in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home.
***
The above article and birth/death information from:
Charlene Clark Harmon
Ben Davis High School Class of 1954 Historian
Col Ronald F Bryant Dies;
Col Ronald Franklin Bryant, 40, second in command to Marion County Sheriff Lawrence F Broderick and holder of every rank from clerk to colonel in the department since joining in 1957, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital.
Selected in 1975 by Sheriff Broderick as executive officer, Col Bryant earlier in his career had served five years in that position.
From 1971 to 1973, while on leave of absence from the department, he was safety director at Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He returned to the department in January 1975 as Broderick's executive officer.
He was a recipient in June of the 11th District American Legion's Policeman of the Year award. The Police League of Indiana also named him 1976 Police Officer of the Year.
A soft-spoken man, Col Bryant fulfilled a lifelong ambition in October 1975 when he was sworn into the Indiana bar after completing six years of part-time law study at the Indianapolis Law School.
He first enrolled in the law school in 1969. In April 1973 he was stricken with multiple myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer. Six months later he developed chronic kidney disease.
He had to drop out of school three times because of his illness. He underwent kidney dialysis during the day and attended law classes at night while maintaining his full-time job in law enforcement.
He started work with the sheriff's department in 1956 as a dispatcher. In 1966 he was promoted to major and executive officer of the department, a post he held until going to IPI.
A Democrat, Col Bryant unsuccessfully sought the party's nomination for sheriff in 1974 and three years earlier failed in a bid for a City-County Council seat.
He was selected last August as a citizen member of a state legislative committee studying the Unification of Marion County Police Forces.
A lifelong resident of Indianapolis he graduated from Ben Davis High School in 1954 and was a member of the Marine Corps Reserve from 1954 to 1962 and a graduate of Indiana Central University.
He had been a member of Chapel Rock Christian Church, Police League of Indiana, Deputy Sheriff Fraternal Organization Lodge 1, Fraternal Order of Police and Wayne Township Fire Department.
Also, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and 19th District Democrat Club.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs Patty Bryant; a daughter, Miss Sherri L Bryant; a son, Ronald Alan Bryant; and his parents, Mr & Mrs Frank Bryant, all of Indianapolis.
Services will be held at 10 am Saturday in the church with burial in Lincoln Memory Gardens at Zionsville. Friends may call from 2 pm to 10 pm today in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home.
***
The above article and birth/death information from:
Charlene Clark Harmon
Ben Davis High School Class of 1954 Historian
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