Former Hermosa Beach police sergeant Bill Davis, 77, remembered
Former Hermosa Beach police sergeant Bill K. Davis died Aug. 11 at his Oceanside home after a lengthy battle with heart disease. He was 77. Bill and Valerie Davis. Davis was born in Mineral Wells, Texas into a traveling, musical comedy show family, which performed mostly in the Southwest. Davis was one of four children. His parents quit the traveling show when Davis was 4 and settled in Wewoka, Oklahoma. A couple years later, Davis’s mother and the children moved to Pittsburg, California. Davis was 6-foot 5-inches tall and played varsity basketball in his first year of high school at Pittsburg High. After graduating from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, Davis and his brother Jerry joined the army together and served for two years, during which time Davis played for the army basketball team. Davis attended East Contra Costa College and graduated with a major in police science from El Camino College, where he also played basketball. When Davis worked as a shift manager at a McDonald’s, one of his fry cooks was one of the Smothers Brothers, his wife Valerie said. Davis was living in Hawaii in 1962 and managing a restaurant on Waikiki Beach when he heard that the Hermosa Beach…
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