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Waggonner had a [[stroke]] and suffered from [[heart]] problems. He had been hospitalized for several weeks prior to his death at Promise Specialty Hospital in Shreveport.
Waggonner had a [[stroke]] and suffered from [[heart]] problems. He had been hospitalized for several weeks prior to his death at Promise Specialty Hospital in Shreveport.
Services of forty-five minutes in length were held on October 9, 2007, at the Brown Memorial Chapel of Methodist-affiliated Centenary College, another institution of higher learning which Waggonner supported. Centenary President Emeritus Donald Webb officiated, with assistance from the Reverend Lynn Malone of the First United Methodist Church of Benton. Webb quipped that Waggonner had insisted thirty years earlier that Webb preach Waggonner's funeral, and Webb said he often hoped that Waggonner would outlive him and thus relieve Webb of that responsibility for which he felt "inadequate." Webb called Waggonner a "balanced man who could see both sides and bring them together." Reverend Malone said that Waggonner was the "ultimate patriot who loved his country." Waggonner himself requested the reading of that familiar passage from ''[[Ecclesiastes[['' about there being a time for everything under the sun."
Services of forty-five minutes in length were held on October 9, 2007, at the Brown Memorial Chapel of Methodist-affiliated Centenary College, another institution of higher learning which Waggonner supported. Centenary President Emeritus Donald Webb officiated, with assistance from the Reverend Lynn Malone of the First United Methodist Church of Benton. Webb quipped that Waggonner had insisted thirty years earlier that Webb preach Waggonner's funeral, and Webb said he often hoped that Waggonner would outlive him and thus relieve Webb of that responsibility for which he felt "inadequate." Webb called Waggonner a "balanced man who could see both sides and bring them together." Reverend Malone said that Waggonner was the "ultimate patriot who loved his country." Waggonner himself requested the reading of that familiar passage from ''[[Ecclesiastes]]'' about there being a time for everything under the sun."
He is interred at the Plain Dealing Cemetery, along with his wife, parents and a brother, [[Willie Waggonner]], a long-term [[sheriff]] of Bossier Parish.
He is interred at the Plain Dealing Cemetery, along with his wife, parents and a brother, [[Willie Waggonner]], a long-term [[sheriff]] of Bossier Parish.