The cowgirl, who held her badge from 1949 through 1951, also worked as a dog breeder, cattle herder, Christian missionary and caregiver during a well-traveled life.
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After an hour-long interview, Musick handed Chandler a badge and a signed identification card that granted her police authority. But the job didn’t pay and she had to use her own gun and horse, Chandler said. “I put it in my holster and every time I got on the horse, it was so big it kept getting in the way,” Chandler said. “So, I told my mom. I don’t know where she got the money. I said, ‘I’ve got to have a smaller gun.’”“Can you imagine a mother in that day and age, knowing that her daughter’s going to be a deputy sheriff, and not saying, ‘Oh, you can’t do that dear. You might get killed or you might whatever’? Not my mom,” Chandler said.
“In those days, all you needed to do was ride your horse for people to turn around,” said Ray Grimes, curator of the Orange County Sheriff’s Museum & Education Center., “I was just at the house, and we watched to see if somebody came; we could see cars down the dirt road. I rode my horse around, with my badge and my gun, once in a while. Believe it or not, the trespassing stopped.
It wasn’t until 2008 that Chandler — who worked as a caregiver upon her return to California, according to the Register — thought about the badge, pistol and sheriff-signed identification card that had long lain forgotten in a toy chest. She wrote to then-county Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to say she wanted to return the items because she did not have any children to inherit them.
Hutchens, 65, had battled the disease for part of her tenure as sheriff and used her health crisis to help educate the public.
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