O. E. Price

Oscar Ewing Price
Bossier City Municipal Judge
In office 1954–1960
Louisiana 26th Judicial District Court Judge
In office 1960–1969
Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal Judge
In office 1969 – 1985
Personal details
Born	January 1, 1924(1924-01-01) DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, USA
Died	February 23, 2006(2006-02-23) (aged 82)
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	(1) Joyce Maurine Walker Price (died 1995) (2) Florence "Flo" Whittington Bigby Price (married 1997-2006, his death)
Children	John Walker Price Roger Ewing Price Clayton Holt Price Kathy Price Rodgers Stepson Walter O. Bigby, Jr. Two granddaughters
Residence	Bossier City Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Alma mater	Louisiana Tech University Louisiana State University Law Center
Occupation	Judge; Attorney
Religion	United Methodist

Oscar Ewing Price, known as O. E. Price (January 1, 1924–February 23, 2006), was a district and appeals court judge from Bossier City, Louisiana.

Background

Price was born in Logansport in DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana to Oscar Elijah Price (1876-1943) and the former Katherine Holt.^[1]Price graduated at the age of sixteen from Logansport High School^[2] and then entered Louisiana Tech University in Ruston for three years. He then entered the United States Army Air Corps, forerunner to the Air Force, for three years of service during World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater of operations. In 1949, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge and thereafter opened his law office in Bossier City, located across the Red River from Shreveport.^[3]

Judgeships

In 1954, Price, a Democrat, was elected municipal judge in Bossier City. In 1960, he secure election to the 26th Judicial District Court bench, on which he served until 1969, upon election to the Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport. In 1979, Price was named chief judge of the appeals court, on which he served until his retirement in 1985. He was a past chairman of the Louisiana Conference of Court of Appeal Judges and a member of the Louisiana, Bossier Parish, and Shreveport bar associations. In 1999, Price was honored at a 50-year reunion of LSU Law School graduates. ^[3]After retirement, Price engaged in arbitration work for the law firm of Peters, Ward, Bright and Hennessy in Shreveport.^[2]

Associations

Price was active in the Louisiana Bar Association, Bossier Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, and United Way, Palmetto Country Club, and the Young Men's Christian Association. He was an avid runner, having participated in two triathlons when he was in his fifties.^[2] He served on the boards of several financial institutions. He was reared in the First United Methodist Church of Logansport and was thereafter a long-term member of the First United Methodist Church of Bossier City.^[2]

Family and death

Price was twice married. Two years after the death of his first wife, the former Joyce Maurine Walker (September 29, 1925–September 13, 1995), a victim of Alzheimer's disease, Judge Price married Anna Florence "Flo" Whittington Bigby (1923-2009), a businesswoman and the widow of Price's former judicial colleague, Walter O. Bigby. She was the daughter of banker and former Louisiana State Senator V.V. Whittington, who represented Bossier and Webster parishes. Judge Price died of complications from pneumonia. In addition to his second wife "Flo" Price, he was survived by four children, John Walker Price of Bossier City, Roger Ewing Price of Baton Rouge, Clayton Holt Price of Houston, Texas, and Kathy Price Rodgers of Southlake, a suburb of Fort Worth; stepson Walter O. Bigby, Jr., of Bossier City, and two Rodgers granddaughters.^[2]

Judge Price is interred beside his first wife at the O.E. Price Memorial Cemetery in Logansport, which is named for Price's father.^[4][5]

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References

1. ^ O. E. Price Cemetery records do not list a "Katherine Holt" Price, but a "Gay Holt" Price (1879-1966) is recorded. This may be Judge Price's mother. She would have been forty-four years of age at his birth.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "O.E. Price obituary". Shreveport Times, February 24, 2006. http://hdr50.com/LHSgrads/oepricecem_priceoe.html. Retrieved December 12, 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "In Memoriam: O.E. Price". lasc.org. http://www.lasc.org/community_outreach/in_memoriam/price_o_e.asp. Retrieved September 27, 2010. 
4. ^ "O.E. Price Memorial Cemetery". files.usgwarchives.org. http://files.usgwarchives.org/la/desoto/cemeteries/price.txt. Retrieved September 27, 2010. 
5. ^ Flo Price is interred beside her first husband, Judge Walter O. Bigby, at Hillcrest Cemetery in Haughton.

Persondata
Name	Price, Oscar Ewing
Alternative names
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Date of birth	January 1, 1924
Place of birth	Logansport DeSoto Parish Louisiana USA
Date of death	February 23, 2006
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