This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZkB.2ACI/2907.6 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - December 27, 1989 Deceased Name: Ex-police Lt. Herman Holloway dies Herman C. Holloway, a retired Dallas police lieutenant who established the department's special operations detail, died Tuesday morning at Denton Community Hospital after a brief illness. He was 78. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Macon Douglas Funeral Home in Dallas. Burial will follow at Long Creek Cemetery in Sunnyvale. Mr. Holloway, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., moved to Dallas as a child. He attended public schools in Dallas and worked at a Mobil gas station that his father owned. He joined the Dallas Police Department in March 1936. Mr. Holloway was a patrol officer for several years before being promoted to the homicide division. In March 1957, he was promoted to lieutenant; in 1965, he established the special enforcement detail. Three years later, part of the special enforcement detail became the department's tactical unit, known to officers as "Holloway's Raiders.' "The crime rate was giving us a problem, and we needed a detail to work the high-crime areas,' said Dallas police Sgt. Tom Wafer, who worked with Mr. Holloway for nine years. "The unit did crowd control, patrolled high crime neighborhoods and did shotgun stakeouts at 7-Eleven stores to help cut the crime rate.' Sgt. Wafer, who now works in the narcotics division, said the special operations detail that Mr. Holloway formed was the forerunner of the special operations division, which was expanded in 1968. "The detail was extremely effective,' Sgt. Wafer said. "Its main objective was to make felony arrests.' Holloway's Raiders were made up of two sergeants and about 16 to 20 patrol officers. The special operations division has grown over the years. It now includes a number of units, including canine and explosives. The division is one of the department's biggest and is highly regarded across the United States. "They decided special operations was a budding project that would work, so they increased the manpower a few years after it began,' Sgt. Wafer said. Mr. Holloway retired from the department in 1977. "He was great,' Sgt. Wafer said. "I'm really going to miss him, and I missed him when he left the department.' Sgt. Wafter said Mr. Holloway had "a chest full of medals,' including the department's Medal of Valor. Mr. Holloway earned the medal after being injured in a shooting in Fort Worth during a felony arrest. A Fort Worth officer was killed in incident. "You could never get him to talk about the awards he won,' Sgt. Wafer said. "I only know about the Medal of Valor through his friends and other members of the department. "He was one of those guys that you didn't disobey his orders. If he told you to jump off a building, you'd do it and know it was right.' Mr. Holloway is survived by two daughters, Holly Goin of Justin and Carol Humphrey of Richardson; three brothers, James Holloway, Howard Holloway and Bob Holloway, all of Dallas; a sister, Evelyn Dorris of Mesquite; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Memorials may be made to the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children. Dallas Morning News, The (TX) Date: December 27, 1989 Author: Nancy St. Pierre Edition: HOME FINAL Page: 25A Record Number: DAL1109748 (c) Copyright, 1989, The Dallas Morning News