Lake County Procession Honors Deputy Who Died: Images

LAKE COUNTY - A procession on Sunday through Lake County gave well-wishers a chance to pay their last respects to a local deputy who died Thursday after an apparent tragic accident earlier in the week off the Mendocino coastline.

Deputy Sheriff Jake Steely was apparently swept into the ocean with his 11-year-old son while visiting the Mendocino Coast on Monday. On Thursday, doctors in Chico determined that Steely had suffered irreversible brain damage and pronounced him brain dead.

On Sunday, as the Sheriff's Office returned Steely to Lake County, residents scattered to honor the deputy along a route that began at the intersection of Highway 20 and Highway 53 in Clearlake Oaks and ended at Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary on North High St. in Lakeport.

Patch contributing photographer Al Francis sent these images to us.

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• Swept Into The Ocean, Lake County Deputy Now In Critical Condition

-all images via Al Francis