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Bowie firefighter awards presented, new firefighters pinned

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By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
City of Bowie firefighters celebrated family, friends and co-workers at their annual Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 17 recognizing its top firefighters and presenting service awards.
As the event opened the experience of each firefighter was noted as the department has a total of 222.4 years of service. Those ranks have grown as 14 newer firefighters were pinned with their badges by family and friends.
Those pinned included: Dawson Estes, Stephanie Humberd, Alexis Leffingwell, Cory Nava, Jake Ragsdale, Nate Rodrigs, Hayden Rodriguez, Alex Routh, Richard Routh, Dalton Rushing, Marco Sandoval, Cody Yzaguirre, McKenzie Molsbee and Cody Caraway.
The year’s top honors were presented. Ross Hamilton, a veteran of the department with 26 years, received the Roy Gene Williams Award. This is for a volunteer firefighter selected by the volunteer firefighters. Fireman of the Year went to Chad Gerlach, who has been with the department three years.

Read the full story and see more photos in the Thursday Bowie News.

Pictured above, Mayor Gaylynn Burris gave the oath to the new firefighters who were then pinned with their badges by friends and family. (Photo by Barbara Green)

Ross Hamilton received the Roy Gene Williams Award during last week’s Bowie Fire Department Thanksgiving Awards night. Lee Adams made the presentation as Chief Doug Page looks on. (Photo by Barbara Green)
(Right) Chad Gerlach received the Fireman of the Year Award from last year’s recipient Chad Long. (Photo by Barbara Green)
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Bowie Council meets June 23

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The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.

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City of Bowie reports heat advisory today

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A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.

Hear Audio Alert:https://hrpow.us/oeFZANN

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Sheriff confirms human remains found in Sunset area

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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”

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