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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Date: November 5, 2002 Adjournment
On this date the Board of Supervisors adjourned this meeting in
memory of John Rousset, a resident of Walnut Creek. Mr.
Rousset served as a Concord Police Officer, and was a great
humanitarian. John Rousset was 46 years young.
Mr. Rousset passed away on October 20, 2002.
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to put himself through the police
ft leiter demi~ acsncot y and then got■job with
Oarversktcarded He was swam in as a fult-tune
lq l ttaroic rescue. oto in 19ftedv d save his t
areK
Rom r�eived several horrors,
including a lifesavtng award for
jumpint,in uniform,into Ellis
S lq John lake to rescue a drowning
woman.Two years&M he be-
t,k9W Suri*1l] came a traffic investigator,a job
anXtWacWW4wiRbe he had aspired to early on.
'I can't remember Concord
rCft= as(w who without him befrsg dm-%"said to
Im3d to h*t}fto lice Chief Rats Ace,a 2S year vet.
Roulaet was killed in a car eras."He is one of the fete people
By Kds i Belcamino oath Sund:.yq f czn thunk of who has no
srnrrwarrra Raised In'9ii dm Creek,Raga. He was everybody's friend. He
CONCORD—John Roussel set knew ecriy what he wanted was one of the ofticers. people
was born to be a police officer. to do. He r erved as a Contra wwuld to to in times of need."
Flit friends say blue rear through Costa sherifi''s cadet dating high More than anything.(Mends
his mitts. school,Atter gmduad#an in 1874, say Rousset wig be remembered
Police work was his lffelon he had a to ugh trate qualifying as someone motto never had a bad
dream.but achieving it warn t for a police.'ob because he was word to any about anybody and
easy[ alightly color-blind, his father who lived to help others.
+ The day Rousset was sworn eatd.So Rowset did the next best if people needed help n'ovin ,
in as a Concord police officer and be-mme an etnegpncy R volunteered his truck.
was the proudest of his life. medical techniciaa someone needed a place to stay,
"You could see it in his eyes," in an early job as an ambu- he always had an sierra t+ooas,at
hit father John Rousset sr.,void. lance driver,he earned the nick. he Byron rancIL If hkwj r needed
"That's the beat thing that ever name`Doc"He later worked as a place to lip dna hotses•Raw
happened to trim." a dispatcher for the sheriff's of. set would tapir carr of them watig
The 4&"sr-old Rousset was fice and in Concord,where he with his own horse,l iq*..
s mg!in stature—in his cowboy was a rsserv.,police officer. Lad Yew,Rmmet took a fallow
boons he might have reached 5 When po:`ce agancies eased who was hying of saner;
fast 7—but his PasOnfift eine their requirements a few years into hag tames and cared her him.
ltfm beam agger than life later,Rousse. told his father that He helped etre on t,
'"Ttjat'a by it's tan hard to be- he tingly ha, a chaetae.He paid beat and arms tools in at law t two
!sera!re's gone,"said friend and — woman hooked on drugs and
felkrtprof'hcer Dan Martin. See QF` ICER,Fuge 4 helped titer Set back on their fleet,
said Curtis Cbmsen,a firefighter
who gam up re a door to Rmaset
"He war a put humanitarian
s that way,"Clausen said.
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