Beautiful 1973 Bowie Texas Police Chief Badge of Bryan Wasson by Sun in Near Mint Condition

ARTIFACT:

This is a Beautiful 1973 Bowie Texas Police Chief Badge of Bryan Wasson by Sun in Near Mint condition.

Chief Wasson served as Bowie’s Chief from 1973 to 1979.

https://wisecountytexas.info/obituaries/images/2011/Wasson,JessieBryan(Chief)Jr.-2011.pdf

Wasson, Jessie Bryan ‘Chief’, Jr. | 1933-2011
Published Sunday, July 17, 2011

Funeral for Jessie Bryan “Chief” Wasson Jr., 78, of Bowie
is 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17, at First Baptist Church of Bowie.
Visitation was to be 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at White Family Funeral Home in Bowie.
Graveside service is 1 p.m. Monday, July 18, at Potosi Cemetery in Abilene. Visitation
will follow immediately at Potosi Baptist Church in Abilene.
Wasson died Thursday, July 14, 2011, in Wichita Falls.
Born Jan. 22, 1933, in Abilene to J.B. “Jake” and Linda Gertrude (Sterling) Wasson, he
graduated from Abilene High School in 1950. He was licensed to the gospel ministry by
the First Baptist Church of Bowie Oct. 15, 1975, and received a pastoral ministries
diploma from the Seminary Extension Institute of the Southern Baptist Convention Sept.
21, 1982.
Wasson married Shirley Mazy Feb. 4, 1956, in Abilene.

He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force May 23, 1951, and received a direct commission as first
lieutenant from the U.S. Army Feb. 20, 1968. He retired from the Army Reserve Feb. 28,
1986, and transferred to the U.S. Army retired list as a major with credit for 42 years of
military service on his 60th birthday.

Wasson was also a former Abilene police lieutenant, Texas peace officer, Bowie chief of
police and a retired special agent/safety investigator for the U.S. Department of
Transportation.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bowie. He rode horses.
Wasson is survived by his wife; daughters Donna Bean and husband, Willie, of Alvord
and Brenda White and husband, Darwin, of Chico; granddaughters Tara Knarr and
husband, Matt, of Decatur and Delise White of Bridgeport; grandsons Bryan White of
Chico, Pfc. Brandon Wasson of Schweinfurt, Germany, and John Bean and wife, Erin, of
Fort Worth; great-grandson Jessie Knarr of Decatur; mother-in-law Louise Mazy of
Bowie; and other family members.

VINTAGE:

1973.

SIZE:

Approximately 3-3/16" in height x 2-1/4" in width

CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS:

Gold Plated and Nickel findings.

ATTACHMENT:

Vertical kick pin with drop-in locking catch.

MRKING:

SUN BADGE CO. L.A. COUNTY

ITEM NOTES:

This is from a Police and Law Enforcement badge collection which we will be listing more of over the coming months. KAEJX26 LAAGEX11/03/26

CONDITION: 10- (Near Mint)

The badge is in near mint condition.

GUARANTEE:

As with all my artifacts, this piece is guaranteed to be original, as described.