Jefferson County sheriff’s department remembers two deputies killed in 1959 crash
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department remembered Harry Waters and Larry Dano, who were killed in a patrol-car crash shortly after midnight on Sept. 14, 1959.
By the ClickNNY North Country Desk
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department remembered deputies Harry Waters and Larry Dano in a public post marking the crash that killed them shortly after midnight on Sept. 14, 1959.
Waters was driving the patrol car and died on his 37th birthday. Dano was 26 and had served as a deputy for three months.
This story was written from a community submission and reviewed by a ClickNNY editor before publication.
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