R.I.P. J.C. Burris

[Rhino]

Trooper who promoted road safety dies

OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper who was the face of the statewide "Click it or Ticket" safety campaign has died.

The O-H-P says trooper J-C Burris died yesterday after a long bout with cancer. He was 45.

During Burris' 18-year career, he mostly worked to promote highway safety, and at the time of his death, he was assigned to the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office.

Burris was diagnosed with colorectal cancer nearly three years ago, but continued to work throughout much of his treatment.

Trooper Pete Norwood says Burris never gave up, even when things didn't look too good.

Funeral arrangements for Burris have not been set. You may know him as the trooper that escorts Traber to OU/TX every year.

[SCOUT]

That is terrible news and I give my sympathies to his family.

Colorectal cancer scares me to no end. I had a friend who died from it at the age of 32. It seems to claim its victims WAY too early in life.

[Sparky]

The OHSO is one of our clients, and I had the honor of working with him on several occasions. He was a dynamic man and always put the safety of all Oklahomans first. God Bless.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

Very, very sad.

:(

[sanantoniosooner]

sad

[Frozen Sooner]

That is terrible news and I give my sympathies to his family.

Colorectal cancer scares me to no end. I had a friend who died from it at the age of 32. It seems to claim its victims WAY too early in life.

I was diagnosed with chronic ulcerative colitis when I was a kid. It went into remission when I was 13 or 14, and my doctor at the time said as long as it doesn't start back up to just go get checked out when I was 30.

Two years ago (when I was 30) I went to a G-I specialist to get checked out and he tells me that I should have been getting checked every five years. In one of the worst displays of bedside manner I've ever seen, he then told me that it was a 50/50 chance that I had colo-rectal cancer.

That was a pretty miserable three days waiting to get scoped out. Then a miserable morning of getting scoped out. Turns out that the diagnosis when I was a kid was incorrect, and everything was in good working order down there-the new G-I thinks that I may have had viral UC instead of chronic UC.

Scared the bejesus out of me, though.

[OUDoc]

I heard about that. My best to his family.