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'''Terry Ray Reeves''' (July 9, 1946 – July 22, 2005), was from 1991 until his death by [[suicide]] the district attorney of the 8th Judicial District Court for his native Winn Parish in North [[Louisiana]], the ancestral home of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political dynasty.
'''Terry Ray Reeves''' (July 9, 1946 – July 22, 2005), was from 1991 until his death by [[suicide]] the district attorney of the 8th Judicial District Court for his native Winn Parish in North [[Louisiana]], the ancestral home of the [[Huey Long|Long political dynasty]].
==Background==
==Background==
Reeves was born in Winnfield to Jessie W. Reeves (1907-1968) and the former Lois D. "Dude" Robinson (1917-2007). A native of Union Parish in north Louisiana and a brakeman] for Missouri Pacific Railroad,<ref name=jrreeves>{{cite web |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11711892|title=Jessie Ray Reeves|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> Jessie Reeves was killed in an [[automobile]] accident while traveling from [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] to Winnfield. Mrs. Reeves was a native of MCurtain County in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], who for a half century operated a grocery store in Winn Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43895267|title=Lois D. "Dude" Robinson Reeves|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>
Reeves was born in Winnfield to Jessie W. Reeves (1907-1968) and the former Lois D. "Dude" Robinson (1917-2007). A native of Union Parish in north Louisiana and a brakeman] for Missouri Pacific Railroad,<ref name=jrreeves>{{cite web |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11711892|title=Jessie Ray Reeves|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref> Jessie Reeves was killed in an [[automobile]] accident while traveling from [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] to Winnfield. Mrs. Reeves was a native of MCurtain County in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], who for a half century operated a grocery store in Winn Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43895267|title=Lois D. "Dude" Robinson Reeves|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>
Reeves graduated in 1964 from Winnfield Senior High School and thereafter [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana. He served in the [[United States Air Force]]. He was stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, [[Virginia]], at the time of his father's death.<ref name=jrreeves/> Though white, Reeves obtained his legal credentials from the historically black Southern University Law Center in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11789525|title=Terry Ray Reeves|author=Ron Manley|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>
Reeves graduated in 1964 from Winnfield Senior High School and thereafter [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana. He served in the [[United States Air Force]]. He was stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, [[Virginia]], at the time of his father's death.<ref name=jrreeves/> Though white, Reeves obtained his legal credentials from the historically black Southern University Law Center in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11789525|title=Terry Ray Reeves|author=Ron Manley|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>
The current Bossier-Webster District Attorney [[Schuler Marvin]] also received his legal credentials from Southern.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge,, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Laurel Heights [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Winnfield.<ref name=bio/> He was the divorced father of a son, Jessie Ray Reeves (born April 1969), who lived in Winnfield in 2005 but in East Baton Rouge Parish in 2015, and a daughter, Deanna Renee Reeves Sutton (born October 1975) of [[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]].<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familytreenow.com/records/people/sutton/christophe/kekrdre33k1ftocnb-5t4w|title=Relatives of Christopher Sutton|publisher=familytreenow.com|accessdate=May 18, 2015}}</ref>
He was a member of the Masonic lodge,, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Laurel Heights [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Winnfield.<ref name=bio/> He was the divorced father of a son, Jessie Ray Reeves (born April 1969), who lived in Winnfield in 2005 but in East Baton Rouge Parish in 2015, and a daughter, Deanna Renee Reeves Sutton (born October 1975) of [[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]].<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familytreenow.com/records/people/sutton/christophe/kekrdre33k1ftocnb-5t4w|title=Relatives of Christopher Sutton|publisher=familytreenow.com|accessdate=May 18, 2015}}</ref>