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Bagwell's namesake son, Harrison Garey "Gary" Bagwell, Jr. (1937-1985), entered the [[United States Navy]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. He served aboard the transport ship, ''U.S.S. Caddo Parish.'' His letters home described the [[Viet Cong]], military operations, and the people and landscape of [[South Vietnam]] and [[Taiwan]]. His papers are held in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections of the LSU Archives. There is also a special feature in the archive from the ''New Orleans Item'' on the Louisiana Republican Party in 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/876590453|title=Gary Bagwell Letters|publisher=beta.worldcat.org|accessdate=January 23, 2015}}</ref>​
 
Bagwell's namesake son, Harrison Garey "Gary" Bagwell, Jr. (1937-1985), entered the [[United States Navy]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. He served aboard the transport ship, ''U.S.S. Caddo Parish.'' His letters home described the [[Viet Cong]], military operations, and the people and landscape of [[South Vietnam]] and [[Taiwan]]. His papers are held in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections of the LSU Archives. There is also a special feature in the archive from the ''New Orleans Item'' on the Louisiana Republican Party in 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/876590453|title=Gary Bagwell Letters|publisher=beta.worldcat.org|accessdate=January 23, 2015}}</ref>​
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One of the Bagwells' younger daughters, Bonnie Bagwell Messer (born September 1954), recalled in 2013 that her father had treated the neighborhood children at their home in University Acres each [[Halloween]] to hot dogs, chili, and Kool-Aid. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Bagwell's death, Messer said that when she was a child, "Our house was THE place to go, and he fed everyone. It has been forty years since his last Halloween at our house ... I hope all our neighbors who trick-or-treated at our house will remember him this Halloween and the love he had for Halloween and them."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106215746/http://theadvocate.com/columnists/7441879-55/smiley-frightful-evening|title="Mr. Halloween"|author=Smiley Anders|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 2, 2013|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>​
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One of the Bagwells' younger daughters, Bonnie Bagwell Messer (born September 1954), recalled in 2013 that her father had treated the neighborhood children at their home in University Acres each [[Halloween]] to hot dogs, chili, and Kool-Aid. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Bagwell's death, Messer said that when she was a child, "Our house was THE place to go, and he fed everyone. It has been forty years since his last Halloween at our house ... I hope all our neighbors who trick-or-treated at our house will remember him this Halloween and the love he had for Halloween and them."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106215746/http://theadvocate.com/columnists/7441879-55/smiley-frightful-evening|title="Mr. Halloween"|author=[[Smiley Anders]]|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 2, 2013|accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref>​
    
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