Joe Waggonner - Waggonner The Methodist

Waggonner The Methodist

Waggonner was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Plain Dealing but later attended the First United Methodist Church of Benton.

Daughter Carol Johnston told Shreveport Times that her father was "a strong Christian. As long as he was physically able, he never went to bed without getting on his knees to say his prayer. Everything he did was the result of following what he thought was the example of Jesus."

Son David Waggonner (born ca. 1950) said that his father was "a real man. . . . He really liked people and cared about them." David, who was twelve when Waggonner was elected to Congress, went to Washington with his father in the summer of 1962.