Fred Redwine

Fred Golden Redwine (Long-serving Louisiana justice of the peace)
Born	March 3, 1922 Muncie, Delaware County Indiana, USA Resident of Deville in Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Died	January 22, 2008 (aged 85) Resting place: Big Island Baptist Cemetery in Deville
Political Party	Democrat
Spouse	Dorothy Lee Cole Redwine (deceased) One son: Kenneth Lee "Kenny" Redwine (deceased) Two grandchildren

Fred Golden Redwine (March 3, 1922 – January 20, 2008) was a long-term justice of the peace in the second half of the 20th century in rural Ward 11 in Rapides Parish, east of Alexandria, Louisiana. It is unclear when Redwine assumed his elected duties. He was listed as a Democratic candidate for JP in elections held on December 7, 1963, and two decades later, on October 22, 1983.^[1] The JP post is now held by a Republican, Donald Wayne Kendrick, Jr. of Pineville, whose current term ends on December 31, 2026.

Redwine was one of eight children of Golden Redwine (1889-1931) and the former Lena Clara Clark (1894-1957), originally from Illinois and New Jersey, respectively. He was born in Muncie in Delaware County, Indiana. His father died when Fred was only eight years old. His parents are interred at Beech Grove Cemetery in Muncie. He enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana, which closed in 1991. His service ended in 1944.^[2]

Redwine relocated to Rapides Parish and wed the former Dorothy Lee Cole (1925-1999), and the couple adopted one child, a son they named Kenneth Lee "Kenny" Redwine (1954-2002), who worked in his father's automobile salvage business. Redwine was a president of the Pelican Justices of the Peace and Constables Association, Inc. (1976). He was a director of both Citizens with Seniority Dedicated to Helping the Elderly, Inc. (1979) and the Code Napoleon Society of Louisiana Justices of the Peace and Constables, Inc. (1983)^[3]

In 1998, the Redwine family was shaken by tragedy when Kenneth Redwine shot and killed his wife, the former Phyllis Carroll (1954-1998), who had earlier been employed by the City of Alexandria and thereafter the Rapides Parish Liibrary. In a plea bargain, the then 9th Judicial District Court Judge W. Ross Foote in Alexandria sentenced Redwine to the 40-year maximum on the reduced charge of manslaughter. He also received a 10-year maximum sentence for aggravated battery stemming from a May 1998 attack against his mother-in-law, Ruby Marie Veuleman Langston (1924-2006), at her home in Tioga, northeast of Alexandria. The sentences ran concurrently. Kenneth and Phyllis Redwine had two children who by virtue of the plea bargain did not have to testify, as there was no trial held.^[4] Kenneth Redwine served just three years of his sentence because he died in 2002 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in West Feliciana Parish.

The Redwines are interred at the Big Island Baptist Church Cemetery, except for Phyllis Redwine, who is buried by her mother at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball, also in Rapides Parish. Fred Redwine Road in Deville is named in his honor.