YCSO VOLUNTEER SERVICES COORDINATOR DENNYSE LOLL'S RETIREMENT

Published on April 23, 2025

In 2002, there was an opening for YCSO Volunteer Services Coordinator, and the agency chose Dennyse Loll. Now, 23 years later, DD (as she is affectionately known by all of us) has retired from the position, leaving big shoes to fill.

At the retirement ceremony attended by family, friends, and fellow employees and volunteers, Sheriff David Rhodes told the retiring DD, "It will be tough to replace the radar you had for how you could help the volunteers and get things done." The agency has about 400 volunteers in Search and Rescue, VIP Patrol, and other sectors, and the Sheriff said, "They are almost half of the agency, and your work mission here helped facilitate one the biggest parts of YCSO that the public doesn't even pay for, and we are all grateful to you for that." 

DD stressed how faith played an important role in her career with YCSO, telling the gathering, "I prayed for this job before I got it, and I really felt I was a servant of God for His glory, and not just shuffling papers here." She thanked her family for enduring the long hours she spent away from home to fulfill her commitment to the job, and she thanked her YCSO supervisors over the years who "helped me to exercise humility."

Her parents spoke about her at the ceremony, her mother telling the gathering, "She was quite the character growing up, but she was always looking to help somebody no matter who they were, and she was very kind and helpful to everyone." Her father commended DD for her "stick-to-it stubbornness." Her brother said DD was always "kind, sweet, unselfish and generous" and made sure to take care of her family when they had a need.

And her co-workers echoed those feelings, with comments like, "She always made the best of everything, had a good attitude with a smile, and treated everyone kind", and "Everybody liked you. It was awesome to have you here." DD and her husband, Jeff, initially served as volunteers with YCSO and helped in the forming of that part of the agency nearly three decades ago.