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Adeline Roemer gave her husband the nickname "Budgie," referring to a small bird, <ref name=nolatp/>not to budget decisions that he made as commissioner of administration. In addition to sons, Buddy Roemer and his third wife, Scarlett, and Danny Roemer and wife Judy, Charles Roemer had three daughters, Margaret Roemer Lefler, the widow of Randall Harland Lefler; Melinda Roemer Barrett and husband Michael, and Melanie Roemer Melville and husband David; seventeen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> Roemer's sister, Margaret "Peggy" Roemer Read (1919-2010) of New Orleans, was the founder of the Friends of City Park and worked in the revitalization of the New Orleans Botanical Garden. Her surviving husband and Roemer's brother-in-law is Henry James Read.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-roemer-read-peggy&pid=139812101|title=Margaret Roemer Read|publisher=''Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref>

Adeline Roemer gave her husband the nickname "Budgie," referring to a small bird, <ref name=nolatp/>not to budget decisions that he made as commissioner of administration. In addition to sons, Buddy Roemer and his third wife, Scarlett, and Danny Roemer and wife Judy, Charles Roemer had three daughters, Margaret Roemer Lefler, the widow of Randall Harland Lefler; Melinda Roemer Barrett and husband Michael, and Melanie Roemer Melville and husband David; seventeen grandchildren; and thirty-six great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> Roemer's sister, Margaret "Peggy" Roemer Read (1919-2010) of New Orleans, was the founder of the Friends of City Park and worked in the revitalization of the New Orleans Botanical Garden. Her surviving husband and Roemer's brother-in-law is Henry James Read.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-roemer-read-peggy&pid=139812101|title=Margaret Roemer Read|publisher=''Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref>

   

   

Roemer died in his sleep at his Scopena Plantation<ref>Roemer obituary, ''Monroe News Star'', July 9, 2012</ref> at the age of eighty-eight after a ten-year struggle with [[Alzheimer's disease]]. Services were held on July 10, 2012, at the First [[United Methodist]] Church in downtown Shreveport, with officiating ministers Michael Barrett, Carl Rhoads, and Roemer's son-in-law David R. Melville,<ref name=obit/> pastor of the Fellowship United Methodist Church of Bossier City,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.umc.org/Directory/ChurchDetails.asp?FAC=63822|title=Fellowship United Methodist Church|publisher=archives.umc.org|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref>. Melville was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat in the 2010 general election, having been defeated by the Republican incumbent [[John C. Fleming]] of Minden in Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11022010/11022010_Congressional.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 2, 2010|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref> This same congressional seat was held by Buddy Roemer from 1981 to 1988 and unsuccessfully sought by Adeline Roemer in 1988, who lost to the then freshman incumbent Republican Jim McCrery,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10011988/10011988_Congressional.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, October 1, 1988|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref> a former aide to Buddy Roemer.  

Roemer died in his sleep at his Scopena Plantation<ref>Roemer obituary, ''Monroe News Star'', July 9, 2012</ref> at the age of eighty-eight after a ten-year struggle with [[Alzheimer's disease]]. Services were held on July 10, 2012, at the First [[United Methodist]] Church in downtown Shreveport, with officiating ministers Michael Barrett, Carl Rhoads, and Roemer's son-in-law David R. Melville,<ref name=obit/> pastor of the Fellowship United Methodist Church of Bossier City,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.umc.org/Directory/ChurchDetails.asp?FAC=63822|title=Fellowship United Methodist Church|publisher=archives.umc.org|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref>. Melville was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat in the 2010 general election, having been defeated by the Republican incumbent [[John C. Fleming]] of Minden in Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11022010/11022010_Congressional.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 2, 2010|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref> This same congressional seat was held by Buddy Roemer from 1981 to 1988 and unsuccessfully sought by Adeline Roemer in 1988, who lost to the then freshman incumbent Republican [[Jim McCrery]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10011988/10011988_Congressional.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, October 1, 1988|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 9, 2012}}</ref> a former aide to Buddy Roemer and the House predecessor to John Fleming.  

Nine grandsons served as pallbearers: Franklin, Chas, Havard, Peter, Drew, Jude, Daniel, Dakota, and Taunton. Grandson Chas Roemer, son of Buddy Roemer and first wife, the former Cookie Demier, is an elected Republican member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Former Governor Edwin Edwards, an honorary pallbearer,<ref name=obit/>described Roemer as "a very honorable man, very efficient.  He was very ambitious, but that was not a bad quality ... He was ambitious for the good things."<ref name=nolatp/>State Senate President John Alario, now a Republican from Westwego in Jefferson Parish, who was a Democratic floor leader for Edwards, recalls Roemer as a skilled budget tactitian: "He was someone who made sure we had a balanced budget. He always had the best interest of the state in mind."<ref name=nolatp/>

Nine grandsons served as pallbearers: Franklin, Chas, Havard, Peter, Drew, Jude, Daniel, Dakota, and Taunton. Grandson Chas Roemer, son of Buddy Roemer and first wife, the former Cookie Demier, is an elected Republican member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Former Governor Edwin Edwards, an honorary pallbearer,<ref name=obit/>described Roemer as "a very honorable man, very efficient.  He was very ambitious, but that was not a bad quality ... He was ambitious for the good things."<ref name=nolatp/>State Senate President John Alario, now a Republican from Westwego in Jefferson Parish, who was a Democratic floor leader for Edwards, recalls Roemer as a skilled budget tactitian: "He was someone who made sure we had a balanced budget. He always had the best interest of the state in mind."<ref name=nolatp/>