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A memorial service will be held on Thursday, February 4, 2010, for Julian Edwin Bailes, who departed this life on Monday, February 1, in Shreveport, LA, at the age of 95 years, as a result of complications of a stroke. Judge Bailes was born in Longview, TX and was a life long resident of Natchitoches Parish. The service will be held in Natchitoches at Blanchard-St Denis Funeral Home, 848 Keyser Avenue, at 1:00 pm. The family will receive visitors at the funeral home on Wednesday, February 3 from 5 to 8 pm. Officiating will be Pastors Paul Haines and Chris Hough. Pallbearers will be grandsons Dr. David Alan Scott, Joseph Payne Williams, Jr, Richard Bray Williams and Michael Webb Lipe; and nephews Russell Bailes, Jr and Richard Bailes. He was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Nell Sandefur Bailes, his parents, Larry Thaddeus Bailes and Ethel Ballard Bailes; his first wife, Georgia Butler Bailes; five brothers, Larry Thaddeus Bailes, Jr, Allison Arthur Bailes, Russell Frederick Bailes, Louis Wilburn Bailes and Milton George Bailes; and one sister, Ruby Clarice Bailes. He attended Natchitoches High School, the Louisiana Normal College, and LSU School of Law. While working his way through law school as an elevator operator in the Louisiana State Capital, he was an eye witness and last surviving witness of the assassination of Senator Huey Long. Following the war, he returned to Natchitoches and resumed his law practice and subsequently served at all levels of the judiciary in the State of Louisiana, including City, District, Court of Appeals, and the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was one of the longest serving judges in the State of Louisiana, with 49 years of continuous service on the bench. During World War II, he served 4 years in the United States Army, as a First Lieutenant and rifle company commander including a year of combat in Europe. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge in the U.S. 7th Army. He was wounded in an artillery s

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Julian Edwin Bailes Sr. (January 1915 – February 1, 2010) was an American judge. He served on Louisiana's 10th Judicial District Court from 1960 to 1972. He was reportedly the last living witness to the assassination of Huey Long.

Early life

Bailes was born in Longview, Texas in January of 1915 to Ethel (née Ballard) Larry Thaddeus Bailes Sr., who owned a timber business in Shreveport, Louisiana. Bailes graduated from Natchitoches High School, Louisiana State Normal College (now Northwestern State University) and Louisiana State University School of Law in Baton Rouge, LA in 1937.

While attending the Louisiana State University School of Law, Bailes worked part-time as an elevator operator at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. He was on-duty there and present on September 8, 1935 when Carl Weiss gunned down Huey Pierce Long Jr, a United States Senator and former Louisiana governor.

Military service

After admission to the Louisiana State Bar, Bailes set up his law practice in Natchitoches, LA in 1937. He married Georgia Gretchen Butler in September 1938, who died in childbirth the following year. In 1942, Bailes joined the U.S. Army and commanded a rifle company in the 255th Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, Seventh United States Army at the Battle of Bulge and was twice-wounded in action. After the war, Bailes returned to his private law practice in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and re-married in 1946 to Nell Sandefur.

Judicial tenure

In 1948, Bailes ran as a Democrat and won the election for Natchitoches City Judge. He was reelected in 1954. In 1960, Bailes was elected to Louisiana’s 10th Judicial District and re-elected until his retirement from the bench in 1972 after which the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed Bailes to senior service on the Louisiana Courts of Appeal (1st Circuit, 3rd Circuit, and 4th Circuit), and the Louisiana Supreme Co