Darrel Huntley Tiller, Professor Emeritus of Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City and father of four, passed away September 7, 2016. Darrel was born in Broken Bow Oklahoma, January 25, 1942, to parents Roby and Flora Tiller, the youngest of seven children. He grew up in the Oklahoma City area and graduated Edmond High School, the first in his family to do so. Immediately after graduation, Darrel married Willa Sue Jack. After briefly attending Central Statue University (now the University of Central Oklahoma), Darrel enlisted in the Marine Corps and the couple moved to the San Diego area. While serving as an MP, Darrel discovered his calling: law enforcement. Returning to Oklahoma City, Darrel worked for seven years on the Oklahoma City Police Department, often in the most dangerous downtown neighborhoods of the late sixties and early seventies, where he won the respect of both colleagues and residents. A consummate professional, Darrel netted more arrests by talking than by fighting. The family still loves to share his "cop stories." While in Oklahoma City, Darrel and Sue began raising their four children and Darrel completed a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration at University of Central Oklahoma (then Central State University), part of a new program aimed at educating police officers. Later in his career, Darrel would spearhead these efforts. Leaving the OCPD, Darrel and his family moved to Seminole where he began a second career in teaching, serving for two years as professor of police science at Seminole Junior College. While teaching at SJC, Darrel earned a Masters degree from the University of Oklahoma and later returned to Edmond where he worked as criminal justice planner for the Association of Central Oklahoma Government (ACOG). After two years, he and his family moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where Darrel took a position as head of the Police Science program at Hawkeye Institute of Technology. Five years later, the family returned to the Oklahoma City area where Darrel was hired as Chief of Campus Police for Oklahoma City Public Schools. During his tenure there, he made major reforms, reorganizing and professionalizing the police department. Darrels finaland favoriteprofessional position was as head of the Human Services Division at Oklahoma State University at Oklahoma City. The division included programs in Police Science, Municipal Fire Protection, EMT, Victims Services, and Substance Abuse Counseling among others. During his fifteen years at OSU-OKC, until his retirement in 2004, Darrel had a number of initiatives. He reformed the state program for police officer education. His efforts proved successful as a large number of the first responders at the scene of the Murrah Building tragedy were graduates of his program. The most prominent part of this effort is the precision driving course, part of a training course for law enforcement officers. It is visible from I-40. Retirement gave Darrel opportunities to pursue other interests. As a skilled photographer excelling in both wildlife and natural landscapes, his photographs have been published in The Jimson Weed, the University of Virginia-Wises arts and literature journal. He and his wife Sue spent many happy years traveling, touring North America, Europe, Hawaii, and Central America. He survived cancer once and never let it get the better of him. Darrel will be remembered as a loving husband and father, a man whose gentle demeanor belied a calm authority. He had a constant sense of humor and was always ready to give (and receive) a joke. Darrel was preceded in death by his parents, his four brothers and two sisters. He is survived by Sue, his wife of fifty-six years, his four children, Kenneth, Theresa, Steven, and Keith, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be made in honor of Darrel Tiller to The American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association. Memorial Service Tuesday, September 13, 2016 02:00 PM Mercer-Adams Chapel 3925 N. Asbury Bethany, OK 73008