A life of service will follow David Ronald Alverson to his final resting place.
The former Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy under Sheriff John Cupp died Friday after a months-long battle with leukemia and will be buried at Chattanooga National Cemetery.
Alverson, 72, retired from 21 years in the U.S. Army as a criminal investigator. He did undercover work for the sheriff in the late 1970s and early 1980s before rising to the rank of chief deputy in 1994, said current Chief Deputy Allen Branum.
“He was just an all-around good guy and we were really fortunate to have him for the last year,” Branum said.
Alverson helped part time at the sheriff’s office with research for accreditation work since 2008. He had left the office in the early 2000s and gone to work in security for Memorial Hospital.