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| name = William Ezra "Willie" Kees, Jr.
| name = William Ezra "Willie" Kees, Jr.
| caption =
| caption =
| office =Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana
| office = Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana
| term_start = July 1, 1946
| term_start = July 1, 1946
| term_end = August 1952
| term_end = August 1952
'''William Ezra Kees, Jr.''', known as ''''Willie Kees'' or as ''Willie E. Kees, Jr.''' (August 30, 1916 – June 12, 2002),<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53835991|title=Willie E. Kees, Jr.|publisher=finagrave.com|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref> was a [[business]]man who served from 1946 to 1952 as the [[mayor]] of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]].
'''William Ezra Kees, Jr.''', known as ''''Willie Kees'' or as ''Willie E. Kees, Jr.''' (August 30, 1916 – June 12, 2002),<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53835991|title=Willie E. Kees, Jr.|publisher=finagrave.com|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref> was a [[business]]man who served from 1946 to 1952 as the [[mayor]] of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]].
Kees was descended from a prominent Central Louisiana family which operated Kees General Store on the Red River. He was the third of four children of William "Billy" Kees, Sr. (1881-1938), who was named the Pineville postmaste] in 1911, when the mail office was located in the Kees store.<ref name=keespark/> His mother was the former Julia Elizabeth Bradford (1886-1961). He had two sisters, Ruby Kees Wise (1905-1975) and Myrtle Lucille Kees Freeman (1913-1998),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=106550480|title=William E. Kees, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref> and a brother, Stafford Kees (1919-1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMRT-3VB|title=W. E. Kees|publisher=familysearch.org|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref>
Kees was descended from a prominent Central Louisiana family which operated Kees General Store on the Red River. He was the third of four children of William "Billy" Kees, Sr. (1881-1938), who was named the Pineville postmaster in 1911, when the mail office was located in the Kees store.<ref name=keespark/> His mother was the former Julia Elizabeth Bradford (1886-1961). He had two sisters, Ruby Kees Wise (1905-1975) and Myrtle Lucille Kees Freeman (1913-1998),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=106550480|title=William E. Kees, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref> and a brother, Stafford Kees (1919-1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMRT-3VB|title=W. E. Kees|publisher=familysearch.org|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref>
A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Kees was elected mayor at the age of twenty-nine. That same year a flood of the Red River spilled over into Pineville because of levee height and strength. However, the taller and stronger levee held in the sister city of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. Mayor Kees set forth to bring the levee on the eastern side of the river on par with that in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QGyaGsLxLYC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=Willie+E.+Kees,+Jr.+of+Pineville&source=bl&ots=elegIHGf9X&sig=Men7nxEUB6L4Z5wlQaebU-o-JL0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBmoVChMI0rCm3_XyxgIVRo4NCh1L4Q7y#v=onepage&q=Willie%20E.%20Kees%2C%20Jr.%20of%20Pineville&f=false|title=Talk of the Town: The Rise of Alexandria, Louisiana, and the Daily Town Talk|author=Frederick Marcel Spletstoser|pages=125-126|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]|date=2005|isbn=0-8071-2934-8|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref>
A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Kees was elected mayor at the age of twenty-nine. That same year a flood of the Red River spilled over into Pineville because of levee height and strength. However, the taller and stronger levee held in the sister city of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. Mayor Kees set forth to bring the levee on the eastern side of the river on par with that in Alexandria.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QGyaGsLxLYC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=Willie+E.+Kees,+Jr.+of+Pineville&source=bl&ots=elegIHGf9X&sig=Men7nxEUB6L4Z5wlQaebU-o-JL0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBmoVChMI0rCm3_XyxgIVRo4NCh1L4Q7y#v=onepage&q=Willie%20E.%20Kees%2C%20Jr.%20of%20Pineville&f=false|title=Talk of the Town: The Rise of Alexandria, Louisiana, and the Daily Town Talk|author=Frederick Marcel Spletstoser|pages=125-126|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]|date=2005|isbn=0-8071-2934-8|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref>