Retired Deputy Sharon Hawes passed away on Monday July 2, 2018. Hawes served with the Broward Sheriffs Office beginning her career on July 30, 1973 and retired October 31, 1997. Before her retirement with the agency, she served in several law enforcement departments such as Mass Transit, Narcotics Organized Crime Unit and the Airport. Sharon M. Hawes, who authored Inside/Out, was born in Orange, New Jersey and raised in Newark. She attended Roseville Ave Elementary, Dayton Street Middle and Southside High School from which she graduated in 1965. The fourth of eight children, she left her hometown in 1968 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and became a deputy. Hawes, the mother of two, retired at the age of 50 and still resided in the State of Florida upon her death.
The Memorial Service for Sharon M. Hawes will be held on Saturday, July 21 at 2:00 p.m., at the Tamarac Community Center, 8601 W. Commerical Blvd., Tamarac, Fla. We thank you in advance for helping us celebrate and know that your thoughts, prayers and messages have helped carry us through our grief. Please do not hesitate to reach our before that time. Kendra and Mark Watts Sr.