Slain deputy remembered as true public servant

How to go

What: Suzanne Hopper Memorial Volleyball Tournament to benefit Special Olympics.

When: March 4, 2016.

Where: Tecumseh High School, 10000 W. National Rd., New Carlisle.

To donate: Make checks payable to Clark County Special Olympics and send to The Suzanne Waughtel-Hopper Memorial Volleyball Tournament, 1301 Mitchell Blvd., Springfield, Ohio, 45503. C/O Miste Adams

In the five years since Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Suzanne Hopper was killed in the line of duty, she’s been memorialized in ways both large and small.

But for those who knew her best — as Sue, as Waughtel before her second marriage, as the woman with the infectious giggle who was the gullible subject of other deputy’s pranks — it’s the private ways they honor her that mean the most.

“It’s not about how she died, it’s about how she lived,” fellow-deputy and friend Wendy Donovan said. “Sometimes it seems like an eternity, and then other days it’s like it was last week.”

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