Mourners gathered to celebrate the life of the deputy for the Harris County Precinct 7 Constable’s Office who was killed earlier this month when her squad car was struck by a suspected drunk driver.
Jennifer Chavis never went long without calling or showing up at her mother’s house with her signature bright smile, a laugh and a playful remark.
“I can still hear your voice and it soothes me when I begin to miss seeing you as often as I did,” Childress said in a eulogy at her daughter’s homegoing service. “There can never be enough words for me to express myself at a time like this. My heart is sad. My heart is broken. And I’m hurt.” Members of law enforcement agencies from the region and state attended in full uniform and filled the pews of the church. The law enforcement community was like a second family to Chavis, her mother said.
Several other Houston-area law enforcement officers have lost their lives or been wounded already this year. Last week, mourners gathered for the, 51, a deputy with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office who was shot to death March 31 while confronting a trio of alleged catalytic converter thieves. Chavis was outgoing and energetic — the life of the party, one person wrote in a tribute tucked into each program. Her younger siblings, Jocelyn and Darius, wrote that Chavis was a “shelter in the storm and a hurricane all at once.”
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