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==Background==

==Background==

Babb father, Keith Franklin Babb (1915-2005), was  a native of Malvern in Hot Spring County, [[Arkansas]] (not to be confused with Hot Springs, Arkansas). For fifty years, the senior Babb was a pastor of [[Southern Baptist]] churches in southern Arkansas and North Louisiana, including Marion in Union Parish and after 1952 in Bastrop in Morehouse Parish.<ref name=reverendbabb>{{cite web|url=http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/newspapers/obits/nov05dn.htm|title=Reverend Keith F. Babb|publisher=''[[The News-Star|The Monroe News-Star]]''|date=November 2005|accessdate=February 2, 2015}}</ref> His mother, the former Bessie Mavis Hooks (1917-2009),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=Bessie+Mavis&gsln=Babb&msypn__ftp=Monroe%2C+Ouachita%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msypn=34329&msypn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C2270%7C34329%7C0%7C&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Bessie Mavis Hooks Babb|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 2, 2015}}</ref> was a teacher. While he was a boy living in Bastrop, Babb listened to [[radio]] station KTRY and became fascinated with the weekly Monday broadcast of livestock auctions.<ref name=deltabusiness/>

Babb father, Keith Franklin Babb (1915-2005), was  a native of Malvern in Hot Spring County, [[Arkansas]] (not to be confused with Hot Springs, Arkansas). For fifty years, the senior Babb was a pastor of [[Southern Baptist]] churches in southern Arkansas and North Louisiana, including Marion in Union Parish and after 1952 in Bastrop in Morehouse Parish.<ref name=reverendbabb>{{cite web|url=http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/newspapers/obits/nov05dn.htm|title=Reverend Keith F. Babb|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=November 2005|accessdate=September 17, 2020}}</ref> His mother, the former Bessie Mavis Hooks (1917-2009),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&gss=ms_r_f-2_s&gsfn=Bessie+Mavis&gsln=Babb&msypn__ftp=Monroe%2C+Ouachita%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msypn=34329&msypn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C2270%7C34329%7C0%7C&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Bessie Mavis Hooks Babb|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 2, 2015}}</ref> was a teacher. While he was a boy living in Bastrop, Babb listened to [[radio]] station KTRY and became fascinated with the weekly Monday broadcast of livestock auctions.<ref name=deltabusiness/>

Babb has two children by his late wife, Carolyn Ladner Babb (1941-2017), a son, Keith Bryan Babb (born July 1973) and his wife, the former Alisa Leighton; and a daughter, Keena Babb Antley and her husband, Robert Myatt Antley.<ref name=reverendbabb/> Babb is an active [[deacon]] at Lakeshore Baptist Church in Monroe and a former trustee of the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home. He is a past president of the Greater Monroe Optimist Club.<ref name=babbassociates/>

Babb has two children by his late wife, Carolyn Ladner Babb (1941-2017), a son, Keith Bryan Babb (born July 1973) and his wife, the former Alisa Leighton; and a daughter, Keena Babb Antley and her husband, Robert Myatt Antley.<ref name=reverendbabb/> Babb is an active [[deacon]] at Lakeshore Baptist Church in Monroe and a former trustee of the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home. He is a past president of the Greater Monroe Optimist Club.<ref name=babbassociates/>