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Bean was a [[United States Army]] soldier with service in [[South Korea]] and [[Vietnam]] and a pilot decorated for heroism. He died of renal failure at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport. He had undergone two [[kidney]] transplants and suffered from steadily declining health since 2001.<ref name=findagrave/>
Bean was a [[United States Army]] soldier with service in [[South Korea]] and [[Vietnam]] and a pilot decorated for heroism. He died of renal failure at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport. He had undergone two [[kidney]] transplants and suffered from steadily declining health since 2001.<ref name=findagrave/>
==Humor amid personal difficulties==
==Humor and personal difficulties==
Bean's friends said that he never lost his sense of humor. Besides the kidney transplants, Bean contracted [[pneumonia]], which required hospitalization in 2003, back surgeries, a [[helicopter]] crash in 1973 that led to his health problems, and the strains of politics.<ref name=findagrave/> He outlived two of his three children.
"He was snake bit," said former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senate President Donald Elliott Hines (1933-2019) of Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, a physician who for eight years sat behind Bean in the Senate. "As soon as he got over one problem he'd have another one. But I never heard him complain one time. He met adversity and then went on with it and never let it affect his personal outlook or his demeanor or his relationship with anybody."
"He was snake bit," said former [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senate President Donald Elliott Hines (1933-2019) of Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, a physician who for eight years sat behind Bean in the Senate. "As soon as he got over one problem he'd have another one. But I never heard him complain one time. He met adversity and then went on with it and never let it affect his personal outlook or his demeanor or his relationship with anybody."
Bean's Caddo Parish colleague, former Republican state Senator [[Max T. Malone]] said onn learning of Bean's death: We lost a great individual today. He had a courageous battle with his medical problems that resulted from his military service. … His agenda was to bring the most he could to Shreveport and Bossier City -- that was his main agenda."<ref name=ksla>{{cite web|url=https://www.ksla.com/story/3232008/former-louisiana-state-senator-ron-bean-dies/|title=Former Louisiana State Senator Ron Bean Dies|publisher=KSLA-TV ([[CBS]] in [[Shreveport]])|date=April 19, 2005|accessdate=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
Bean's Caddo Parish colleague, former Republican state Senator [[Max T. Malone]] said onn learning of Bean's death: We lost a great individual today. He had a courageous battle with his medical problems that resulted from his military service. … His agenda was to bring the most he could to Shreveport and Bossier City -- that was his main agenda."<ref name=ksla>{{cite web|url=https://www.ksla.com/story/3232008/former-louisiana-state-senator-ron-bean-dies/|title=Former Louisiana State Senator Ron Bean Dies|publisher=KSLA-TV ([[CBS]] in [[Shreveport]])|date=April 19, 2005|accessdate=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
=="The ultimate in courage"==
=="The ultimate in courage"==
In 2003, the Louisiana Senate gave the ailing Bean a standing ovation after his colleague Robert Jocelyn Barham of Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish recalled the circumstances that led to Bean's health problems.
In 2003, the Louisiana Senate gave the ailing Bean a standing ovation after his colleague Robert Jocelyn Barham of Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish recalled the circumstances that led to Bean's health problems.