 Monday, First Responders gathered at the Allen Baptist Church for the funeral of Floyd County Deputy Oliver Little, who passed away from COVID-19 complications last week after the funeral mountaintop spoke with First Responders about Deputy Little's life and impact on the community. I started volunteering with the sheriff's office in about 2016, 2017, somewhere around there. I got to know him then through there and from there he just almost like a mentor to me. I looked up to him. It seemed like any question you had he could answer. I know it goes without saying. Everybody you talk to, he talks about his big smile. He always had that smile on. I don't care. Day or night you can pass him on the highway and that's one thing that you can see when you pass him. He'd be in his cruising and he'd say that big smile. Before his time as deputy, Little was also known as an EMT paramedic and accident reconstructionist. Afterward we spoke with other First Responders about Deputy Little's impact. I tell all my guys it's used to personality and attitude is much more contagious than you know you you acknowledge was much about the law as you want and big but man his attitude his personality was bigger than anything else he did. His smile was contagious. Everybody just was a better person when Oliver was around them because of his smile and his attitude and so that's what we're gonna miss more than anything obviously is I mean he was a good law enforcement officer but I mean his smile and his attitude and his personality is what I mean we're gonna remember forever. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting-edge technology providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. Lastly some encouraging remarks from First Responders. I can't tell you in the weeks leading up to knowing that he was getting ready to work with us I'd heard nothing but great things and and I had a lot of guys work them for me that was was excited about Oliver coming to work with us because they knew him and knew what a great guy was. He's gonna be missed very badly uh not not just the law enforcement community he's gonna miss him but the community itself is going to miss Oliver. He was just just a great guy and it showed by how many community people that were in there people that just had served him lunch or that had talked to him in a in a gas station or anything Oliver always left that good impression and and Oliver if there is a perfect officer if there is someone that's a perfect police officer it was Oliver. Deputy Oliver Little was 46 years old. For mountaintop news I'm Joel Chorjol.