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Robert Lee (Bob) Bailey, Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, August 27, 1981

Services for Robert Lee (Bob) Bailey, Jr. of Harlington, Texas, were held Monday at Hixson Funeral 
Home in Bunkie. 

Mr. Bailey died Saturday in Xxxxxx.

Mr. Bailey was a prominent citizan in Louisiana, having owned with his family a chain of moving picture 
theaters throughout Louisiana. He also owned Delta Butane Co., which he operated in northeast Louisiana 
from its Tallulah office.

He was very civic and community minded and held memberships in the Louisiana State University "L'' Club, 
Sigma Nu Fraternity and the Mississippi Flood Control Commission. He served as president for the Tallulah 
Country Club, Fifth Louisiana Levee Board and the La. Senior Golf Association. He directed the "Life begins 
at 40" Golf Tournament and the Harlingen Country Club. He was also a Junior Warden in the Trinity Episcopal 
Church of Tallulah.

Survivors include his wife, Cora Cheney Pearce Bailey of Harlingen; two sons, Marshall Pearce Bailey of 
Plano, Texas, and Robert L. Bailey III of Covington and three grandchildren, Marshall Bailey Jr. of 
Lake Providence, Charlotte Bailey of Tampa, Florida, and Scott Bailey, of Houston, Texas.

The family requests no flowers. If anyone wishes to send a memorial, please send to Alton Ochsner Medical 
Foundation, Attention: Medical Research, 1516 Jefferson Hwy., New Orleans, La. 70121.