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For a time the U.S. District Court facility in Shreveport was named for Waggonner. When a new courthouse was subsequently constructed, Waggonner's name was left off the building. Instead the Joe D. Waggonner Lock and Dam is named for him.
For a time the U.S. District Court facility in Shreveport was named for Waggonner. When a new courthouse was subsequently constructed, Waggonner's name was left off the building. Instead the Joe D. Waggonner Lock and Dam is named for him.
==Waggonner the Methodist==
Waggonner was a member of the First [[United Methodist]] Church of Plain Dealing but later attended the First United Methodist in Benton.
Daughter Carol W. Johnston (born December 1945), a former [[educator]], told ''The Shreveport Times'' that her father was "a strong [[Christian]]. As long as he was physically able, he never went to bed without getting on his knees to say his [[prayer]]. Everything he did was the result of following what he thought was the example of [[Jesus]]."
Son Joseph David Waggonner, III (born February 1949), an [[architect]] in [[New Orleans]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=David&qmi=&qn=Waggonner&qcs=New+Orleans%2C+LA&focusfirst=1|title=David Waggonner|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=June 15, 2015}}</ref> said that his father was "a real man. ... He really liked people and cared about them." David, as he is known, was twelve when Waggonner was elected to Congress. He joined his father in Washington in the summer of 1962.
==Death==
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."
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.
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