Bill Brewer

Former Park County, Wyo. Sheriff Bill Brewer passed away earlier this month following a battle with heart disease. Brewer was one of the youngest individuals ever to serve as a sheriff in the state, beginning his four-decade justice and law enforcement career in 1960 with the Powell, Wyo. police department. Brewer later served on the Wyoming Highway Patrol in Cheyenne and Thermopolis. He joined the Park County Sheriff’s Office as undersheriff in 1969, and was the county’s sheriff from 1973 to 1986, and again from 1991 to January of 2003, where he led the county’s patrol, detention and dispatch departments. He was first named sheriff at age 34.