| | After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref> | | After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref> |
| | Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988). | | Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988). |
| | Dooley has four children from his first marriage, Patricia "Patsy" D. Davidson Netherland (born 1954), Steven Norris "Steve" Dooley (born 1955) and wife Teresa Ford Dooley, and James Michael "Mike" Dooley (born 1957) and wife Donna Carter Dooley, and Vol "Bubba" Dooley, III (1965-2001), who was murdered by Dooley's estranged daughter-in-law.<ref name=volsr.obit/> He acquired three stepsons from his second marriage: Autry Brown, Dennis Brown, and Ricky Brown.<ref name=shrtimes/> | | Dooley has four children from his first marriage, Patricia "Patsy" D. Davidson Netherland (born 1954), Steven Norris "Steve" Dooley (born 1955) and wife Teresa Ford Dooley, and James Michael "Mike" Dooley (born 1957) and wife Donna Carter Dooley, and Vol "Bubba" Dooley, III (1965-2001), who was murdered by Dooley's estranged daughter-in-law.<ref name=volsr.obit/> He acquired three stepsons from his second marriage: Autry Brown, Dennis Brown, and Ricky Brown.<ref name=shrtimes/> |