Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, May 1, 1981

BAILEY, WILLIAM M. JR.

Died Wednesday, April 29, 1981, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. He was 73, a resident of Baton Rouge and a native of McComb, Miss. He was a retired Exxon Corp. employee.

Visiting at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Blvd., 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and after 8 a.m. Saturday. Religious services at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Saturday, conducted by the Rev. Huey Moak. Burial in Greenoaks Memorial Park.

Survived by a daughter, Mrs. Dan C. (Willie Mae) Wascome; a son, Kenneth “Donnie” Bailey; two sisters, Ettie Mae Bailey and Vallie Rhea Blair; two brothers, Maurice Bailey, Baton Rouge, and Edwin L. Bailey, Bayou Sorrel; and three grandchildren, Donna and Christie Bailey and Mike Wascome, all of Baton Rouge.

He was a former member of Trinity Baptist Church and a member, deacon and Sunday School teacher at Foster Road Baptist Church, and Central Lodge 442, F&AM.