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==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==

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Baden died at the age of seventy-five, several days after having been admitted to Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. He was on life support as a result of a fall at his home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=thetowntalk&sParam=32326739.story|title=Former Pineville Mayor Fred Baden dies|date=December 17, 2009|publisher=content.usa.today.net|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref> Services were held on December 19, 2009, at the First Baptist Church of Pineville, located across the street from Pineville City Hall. He is interred at Mt. Olivet Cemetery Pineville, also the resting place of his parents and namesake son, Fred Baden, II.<ref name=fbadenjr/>​

Baden died at the age of seventy-five, several days after having been admitted to Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. He was on life support as a result of a fall at his home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=thetowntalk&sParam=32326739.story|title=Former Pineville Mayor Fred Baden dies|date=December 17, 2009|publisher=''USA Today''|accessdate=December 18, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref> Services were held on December 19, 2009, at the First Baptist Church of Pineville, located across the street from Pineville City Hall. He is interred at Mt. Olivet Cemetery Pineville, also the resting place of his parents and namesake son, Fred Baden, II.<ref name=fbadenjr/>​

When he left the office of mayor, Baden declared himself a true public servant: "What we get out of life is what we do for others. ...<ref name=obit/>"We made Pineville a city that everyone could be proud of. I would like to be remembered as a man that helped build the city that I loved. I would like to be remembered for all the accomplishments we made together as a dedicated team for the past twenty-eight years."<ref name=adtt/> He continued: "I never forgot that it was the people who put me there. They're the ones you listen to. They're the board of directors."<ref name=adtt/>​

When he left the office of mayor, Baden declared himself a true public servant: "What we get out of life is what we do for others. ...<ref name=obit/>"We made Pineville a city that everyone could be proud of. I would like to be remembered as a man that helped build the city that I loved. I would like to be remembered for all the accomplishments we made together as a dedicated team for the past twenty-eight years."<ref name=adtt/> He continued: "I never forgot that it was the people who put me there. They're the ones you listen to. They're the board of directors."<ref name=adtt/>​