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Former Boone police chief and longtime pastor Robert Zane Tester has died at 80

Robert Zane Tester, who served as Boone police chief from 1986 to 1998 and spent nearly three decades with the Town of Boone Police Department, has died at 80. He also served as a longtime pastor.

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♥ Why this matters

Nearly thirty years in the Boone Police Department, twelve of them as chief, and a pastor's title for the life he lived after the badge came off. Robert Zane Tester died at eighty on October 8th. He shaped how this town understood order and faith in the same breath.

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