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     William Burl Harding was born on 15 May 1924 in Jefferson County, Alabama. He married Mary Jo Bagwell, daughter of Jerry Mirah Bagwell and Nancy Ellen Self, on 12 April 1946 at Jefferson County, Alabama. William Burl Harding died on 14 January 2005 in Morris, Jefferson County, Alabama, at age 80. He was buried at Glennwood Baptist Church Cemetery, Morris, Jefferson County, Alabama.

     Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS was born on 24 November 1932 in New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York. He was the son of William Ernest Bagwell and Jean (?) Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS married Rose Marie (?) after 1948. Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS married Jeanne T. Elledge after 1958. Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS and Jeanne T. Elledge were divorced on 6 August 1974 at Brevard County, Florida. Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS died on 7 July 2009 at age 76
William E. Bagwell, Jr., -D.D.S. Merritt Island Born November 24, 1932, passed away on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, Dr. Bagwell was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was one of the original dentists in the Merritt Island area, serving his patients for more than 40 years. He had the distinguished honor of being the only General Dentist to treat patients at Wuesthoff Hospital. In his free time he loved flying his airplane, playing golf, boating, taking cruises, and traveling the world with his beloved wife and family. He will be deeply missed.

"We love you Dad!"
Dr. Bagwell is survived by his wife, Rose Marie Bagwell; daughter, Susan M. Tracy (Joseph); sons, Brad A. Bagwell, D.M.D. (Odilie), Todd D. Rush, and William E. Bagwell III, and his grandchildren, Chanel Martin (Ryan), Brittany Strote, Amber Rush, Katelyn Tracy, Sofia Bagwell, Alana Bagwell, Isabelle Bagwell, and Bo Alan Bagwell. Funeral service will take place at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 11th at Divine Mercy Catholic Church. Reception to follow at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Bagwell, 1920 Harbor Pt. Dr., Merritt Island. In lieu of flowers please consider donations to the Tracey Bagwell Foundation of Childrens Home Society. 321-752-3170 ext. 235.

Published in FLORIDA TODAY on July 10, 2009.
He was buried at Florida Memorial Gardens, Rockledge, Brevard County, Florida.

     Rose Marie (?) married Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS, son of William Ernest Bagwell and Jean (?), after 1948.

     Susan M. Bagwell is the daughter of Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS and Rose Marie (?) Susan M. Bagwell married Joseph Tracy after 1967.

     Joseph Tracy married Susan M. Bagwell, daughter of Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS and Rose Marie (?), after 1967.

     Brad. A Bagwell D.M.D. is the son of Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS and Rose Marie (?)

     William E. Bagwell III is the son of Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS and Rose Marie (?)

     Tracey Lynn Bagwell was born on 3 September 1964. She was the daughter of Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS and Rose Marie (?) Tracey Lynn Bagwell died on 5 June 2001 in Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida, at age 36
Legacy of murdered DCF worker Tracey Bagwell lives on

by Britt Kennerly, FLORIDA TODAY, September 4, 2014.

Rather than dwell on the horrible way Tracey Bagwell died, family and friends honor how she lived. The 12th Annual Tracey Bagwell Caribbean Island Party benefits the Children's Home Society of Florida's transitional living program for girls.

Rose Marie Bagwell and Chanel Bagwell Martin shared a quiet evening and carrot cake — Tracey's favorite — with Tracey's grandchildren, two little girls she never met.
Thirteen years after Tracey's murder at the hands of a co-worker at the Florida Department of Children and Families, her birthday, Sept. 3, is "a bummer of a day," said Bagwell, Tracey's mom and a Cocoa resident.
"We really keep it low-key."
Rather than dwell on the horrible way Tracey died, however, family and friends honor how she lived.
So the "party" is this Saturday, at the Radisson Resort at the Port. That's when the 12th Annual Tracey Bagwell Caribbean Island Party kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Children's Home Society of Florida's transitional living program for girls 12 to 17.
The fundraiser comforts Tracey's family, with the knowledge that Tracey's desire to see young women succeed lives on. Donations help girls who might need assistance, as they get started in adult life, with first and last month's rent, or buying a car to get to work, or other necessities.
"I guess this is kind of my shrine to her," Bagwell said of the fundraiser. "I think Tracey would be proud. ... I think in some way it gave me a purpose, to honor her, because she was such an awesome kid."
That awesome kid, in turn, loved children, no matter their lot in life.
In June 2001, Tracey Bagwell was 36 years old, a devoted single mom and UCF graduate working out of DCF's Rockledge office as a foster care caseworker. She was deeply attuned to the needs of young people, those who knew her say.
Bagwell had just returned home from a Caribbean vacation and, on the Sunday before she died, had lunch with family.
That Tuesday, June 5, she died in a church parking lot.
Investigators concluded Bagwell was lured there and murdered by Candice Fiore, 50, a co-worker and adoptions supervisor who had forged Bagwell's signature in a scam to embezzle more than $100,000 in funds set up for foster children in DCF's care.
They speculated Bagwell had learned what Fiore had done: Bagwell had been questioned at work about vouchers for some of those funds, but "her name was even misspelled on them," her mother said.
But family members said Bagwell was so devoted to the kids whose cases she oversaw, they're not surprised she responded to a call to her pager at 10 p.m., and wound up in the parking lot of Merritt Island First Baptist Church.
There, investigators said, Fiore stabbed Bagwell more than 30 times. Bagwell's body was found in her car, still buckled into her seat belt, the next day.
Within 48 hours, Fiore was not only the suspect but was dead, too.
Evidence started to mount when Bagwell's pager, which she always carried, was missing. When law enforcement officials dialed the number, the call back was traced to Fiore's home, where in addition to the pager and a bad cut on Fiore's left hand, blood was found on Fiore's shoes. Still, Fiore denied killing Tracey Bagwell. The next day, Fiore was found dead after falling from the second floor balcony of her mother's condominium.
Though a retired agent and profiler for Florida Department of Law Enforcement thought it was accidental, police ruled the fall a suicide and closed the case after identifying Fiore as the killer.
Chief Deputy Doug Waller of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office went to high school with Bagwell. In a small place like Merritt Island, word of her death spread quickly, he said.
"Everybody knows everybody and the Bagwell family has been part of the community for a very long time and is loved and respected," he said.
"So when it started coming out, it was like, 'Wow.' One of those things you don't expect, at 5 in the afternoon, to come across the victim of a violent murder, left in a car ... the car was there an entire day. People parked next to the car; moved around it doing their daily business."
Fiore's husband and sons were "victims as well, with no knowledge of what, why, how," Waller said.
Rose Bagwell has met members of Fiore's family in the years since and said they were "lovely people."
"They were all very sorry this happened ... it wasn't anybody's fault except Candy's," she said.
Chanel Bagwell Martin was 17 and a student at Merritt Island High, her mother's alma mater, when her mom was slain. She lived with her maternal grandparents after the murder.
Now 30 and living in Atlanta, she's married and the mother of a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old.
The outpouring of love after her mom's death amazed Martin.
"I had no idea that so many people had cherished my mom," she said. "She was so strong ... she worked three jobs at one point to support us. She came home so tired, but always wanted to know about my day ... I don't think I could ever do what she did."
The support has been overwhelming, Bagwell agreed.
"To this day, hardly a week goes by that I don't run into somebody who says, 'Oh, I knew Tracey,'" she said. "It's amazing, how many lives she touched in the 36 years that she was here, really."
She doesn't believe in closure.
"There isn't a day goes by that I don't wish she was here ...
people always say, 'Oh, she's in a better place,'" saidBagwell, whose husband, dentist Bill Bagwell, died in 2009.
"But how could she be in a better place? Her better place was here ... She wanted to live. She fought to live. I don't think there's any closure, not when you lose them like that."
So while family doesn't "celebrate" Tracey's birthday, they think of her daily. Wonder what could have been: She hoped to earn her master's degree. And at the fundraiser, they're reminded what others might achieve because once upon a time, a vibrant young woman had a heart for children.
Random stories about her mother are like sweet messages from beyond for Chanel Martin. Once, at a Walmart, a clerk asked if she was related to Tracey Bagwell.
"She said, 'You look just like her," and she just burst out in tears," Martin said.
"She said, 'Your mom saved my life, with the way she guided me'... It's wonderful, knowing what my mother did for her and so many people.

Tracey Bagwell Foundation
For information on the Tracey Bagwell Foundation, which supports young women transitioning to independence from foster care or homelessness: 321- 397-3000 or http://www.chsfl.org/TraceyBagwell2014.
She was buried at Florida Memorial Gardens, Rockledge, Brevard County, Florida.

     Jeanne T. Elledge married Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS, son of William Ernest Bagwell and Jean (?), after 1958. Jeanne T. Elledge and Dr. William E. Bagwell Jr., DDS were divorced on 6 August 1974 at Brevard County, Florida.

     Daniel Terry was born circa 1808 in South Carolina.

     Wilma Jo Bryant married Larry Jo Bagwell, son of Marvin Ray Bagwell and Roberta Joan Smallwood, on 1 January 1968 at Greentown, Howard County, Indiana.

     Dale Allen Bagwell was born on 26 January 1972. He was the son of Larry Jo Bagwell and Wilma Jo Bryant. Dale Allen Bagwell died on 24 July 1975 in Howard County, Indiana, at age 3 of drowning (Asphyxiation) by falling in a resevoir. He was buried at Kokomo Memorial Park Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Serena Nicole Bagwell is the daughter of Larry Jo Bagwell and Wilma Jo Bryant. Serena Nicole Bagwell married Anthony M Lees on 7 May 1998 at Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Anthony M Lees married Serena Nicole Bagwell, daughter of Larry Jo Bagwell and Wilma Jo Bryant, on 7 May 1998 at Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Tamara Ann Aaron married Larry Jo Bagwell, son of Marvin Ray Bagwell and Roberta Joan Smallwood, on 27 March 1997 at Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Jason S. Bagwell is the son of Larry Edward Bagwell Jr. and Ellen Christina Agesen. Jason S. Bagwell married Kimberly K. Lawson in November 1995 at Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.

     Kimberly K. Lawson married Jason S. Bagwell, son of Larry Edward Bagwell Jr. and Ellen Christina Agesen, in November 1995 at Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.

     Patricia Ann Bagwell was born on 8 October 1930 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.¹ She was the daughter of Garry Falson Bagwell and Mary Elizabeth Lorenz. As of 14 April 1949,her married name was Ford.¹ Patricia Ann Bagwell married Robert A. Ford on 14 April 1949 at Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.¹ Patricia Ann Bagwell died on 17 July 2021 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, at age 90.¹ She was buried on 22 July 2021 at Sunset Memory Garden, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.¹

     Marcia Diane Martin married George Fredrick Bagwell, son of Webster Emmett Bagwell and Dorothy Mae Clark, on 24 December 1988 at Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Lillian Mae Landrigan was born on 20 August 1890 in Miami County, Indiana. As of before 1916,her married name was Bagwell. As of before 1930,her married name was Gappens. She married Howard Gappens before 1930. Lillian Mae Landrigan died on 16 June 1969 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, at age 78. She was buried at Albight Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Oleith Bagwell was also known as Keith Bagwell. He was born on 23 January 1916 in Waltz, Wabash County, Indiana. He was the son of Garry Falson Bagwell and Lillian Mae Landrigan. His parents were not married at the time of his birth. In addition, Oleith or Kevin Bagwell's father is listed as Gary Bagwell on the birth certificate and Scott Bagwell on the death certificate.

On the 1920 United States Federal Census, Keithis listed as living with his mother (Lillian Landrigan) who is a housekeeper in the home of William Needler in Harrison, Howard County, Indiana. Oleith Bagwell died on 20 March 1929 at age 13. He was buried at Albight Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Howard Gappens was born on 15 May 1903. He married Lillian Mae Landrigan before 1930. Howard Gappens died on 11 March 1976 at age 72. He was buried at Albight Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Judith Kay Bailey was also known as Judy Kay Bailey. She was born on 25 May 1937 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana. As of before 1972,her married name was Bagwell. She married Richard Everett Bagwell, son of Garry Falson Bagwell and Mary Elizabeth Lorenz, before 1972. Judith Kay Bailey died on 20 June 2003 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, at age 66.

     Hope Bagwell died on 11 December 1972 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana. She was born on 11 December 1972 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana. She was the daughter of Richard Everett Bagwell and Judith Kay Bailey. Hope Bagwell was buried at Kokomo Memorial Park Cemetery, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.

     Frederick Lewis Harker married Delight Campbell on 6 November 1964 at Logansport, Cass County, Indiana.

     Robert L. Kiger married Delight Campbell after 1945.

     Maxwell Rickey Bagwell was born on 7 October 1952 in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama. He was the son of Maxwell Zinnamon Bagwell and Levonia Galloway. Maxwell Rickey Bagwell married Sherryl Sue Speigner on 8 October 1971 at Bay County, Florida. Maxwell Rickey Bagwell married Janet Kay Taylor on 21 April 1987 at Bay County, Florida. Maxwell Rickey Bagwell died on 6 November 1989 in Hillsborough County, Florida, at age 37 He was shot to death during a robbery. He ran a Domino's Pizza store in Brandon, Florida. The robber shot him with a shotgun after midnight while Maxwell was counting the daily earnings. He was buried at Selma Baptist Church Cemetery, Dothan, Houston County, Alabama.

     As of 21 April 1987,her married name was Bagwell. Janet Kay Taylor married Maxwell Rickey Bagwell, son of Maxwell Zinnamon Bagwell and Levonia Galloway, on 21 April 1987 at Bay County, Florida. Janet Kay Taylor died on 8 September 2015.

     Sherryl Sue Speigner married Maxwell Rickey Bagwell, son of Maxwell Zinnamon Bagwell and Levonia Galloway, on 8 October 1971 at Bay County, Florida.

     As of 24 November 1973,her married name was Bagwell. Debra Jean Littrell married Davie Maxwell Bagwell, son of Elmer Lee Bagwell and Lois Marie "Rose" Scheidecker, on 24 November 1973 at Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. Debra Jean Littrell and Davie Maxwell Bagwell were divorced on 14 May 1979 at Denver, Colorado. As of 16 April 1985,her married name was Nick. Debra Jean Littrell married Robert L. Nick on 16 April 1985 at Lawrence County, Tennessee. Debra Jean Littrell died on 8 February 1998 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.