Saginaw’s first female police officer celebrates 85th birthday: ‘I would do it again’
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
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Saginaw’s first uniformed police woman celebrates 85th birthday: ‘I would do it again if I was young’
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SAGINAW, MI Waiting for a snowstorm to descend on her Wisconsin home on the cusp of her 85th birthday, Joy H. Zissler reflected on her legacy as the first uniformed police woman with the Saginaw Police Department.
“I loved my profession,” she said on the phone from her home in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on the eve of her birthday of Sunday, Jan. 24. “Saginaw was my hometown and I loved it. I would do it again if I was young.”