Alphonse Piacente was born in Cleveland on July 14, 1912 and moved to Wickliffe with his family when he was five years old.
A Wickliffe High School graduate in 1930, he would later become one of Wickliffe's few police officers on a three-man force in 1936. He normally worked 12-hour shifts, six days a week. From issuing traffic tickets to catching runaway horses, the three policemen, including Chief Chris Silsby and Leon Montgomery, were kept quite busy maintaining law and order for the growing city. For all this he made only $125 a month.
He retired from the force in 1944. He was well known for his melodious whistling, professional wrestling, green thumb gardening, and helping out at "Spaghetti Dinners" at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.
Alphonse passed away in 1982 at the age of seventy.
A Wickliffe High School graduate in 1930, he would later become one of Wickliffe's few police officers on a three-man force in 1936. He normally worked 12-hour shifts, six days a week. From issuing traffic tickets to catching runaway horses, the three policemen, including Chief Chris Silsby and Leon Montgomery, were kept quite busy maintaining law and order for the growing city. For all this he made only $125 a month.
He retired from the force in 1944. He was well known for his melodious whistling, professional wrestling, green thumb gardening, and helping out at "Spaghetti Dinners" at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.
Alphonse passed away in 1982 at the age of seventy.
Alphonse Piacente was born in Cleveland on July 14, 1912 and moved to Wickliffe with his family when he was five years old.
A Wickliffe High School graduate in 1930, he would later become one of Wickliffe's few police officers on a three-man force in 1936. He normally worked 12-hour shifts, six days a week. From issuing traffic tickets to catching runaway horses, the three policemen, including Chief Chris Silsby and Leon Montgomery, were kept quite busy maintaining law and order for the growing city. For all this he made only $125 a month.
He retired from the force in 1944. He was well known for his melodious whistling, professional wrestling, green thumb gardening, and helping out at "Spaghetti Dinners" at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.
Alphonse passed away in 1982 at the age of seventy.
A Wickliffe High School graduate in 1930, he would later become one of Wickliffe's few police officers on a three-man force in 1936. He normally worked 12-hour shifts, six days a week. From issuing traffic tickets to catching runaway horses, the three policemen, including Chief Chris Silsby and Leon Montgomery, were kept quite busy maintaining law and order for the growing city. For all this he made only $125 a month.
He retired from the force in 1944. He was well known for his melodious whistling, professional wrestling, green thumb gardening, and helping out at "Spaghetti Dinners" at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.
Alphonse passed away in 1982 at the age of seventy.
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