HAROLD DENNIS FREEMAN: SON OF JOAQUIN; MAYOR OF LOGANSPORT (Written with Perplexity AI)

 

Harold Dennis Freeman

April 23, 1940 – November 23, 2007

Son of Joaquin, Mayor of Logansport

Dennis Freeman, from his 2007 obituary [1]

Harold Dennis Freeman, known all his life as Dennis, was born in Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas, and died in Logansport, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. The two towns sit just across the Sabine River from each other, joined by a single bridge. Dennis spent his life on both banks of that river, and much of his public life working to replace that old bridge with a new one. He was the youngest of six Freeman brothers, an independent insurance agent for nearly forty years, a husband for nearly forty-six years, the father of three daughters, and the mayor of Logansport for twenty-three years [1][4][5][16].

Family and Birth

Dennis was born on April 23, 1940, on the Freeman family farm near Joaquin. He was the sixth and last son of Larnell Lee “L. L.” Freeman and Britt Annie “Shug” Nunley Freeman [1][2][9]. He was born on his father’s thirty-third birthday: L. L. Freeman had been born on the same farm on April 23, 1907 [2][8]. His mother, Britt Annie, was thirty-one [9].

L. L. and Shug had married in Logansport on August 7, 1926 [2]. Their six sons were all born on the Freeman Farm: Travis Lee, Billy Rae, J. C., Verlon Dale, Charles Cleveland, and Harold Dennis [2][10][11]. The farm went back to Dennis’s grandfather, Cullen Henry Freeman, who had bought it in 1910. In 1938 Cullen sold L. L. one and a half acres of it. L. L., a master carpenter who also worked at the local sawmill, built a three-bedroom house there, and that is where he raised his sons [2][3].

A Hard Beginning

Shortly after Dennis was born, the family went through a crisis. L. L.’s appendix became infected and ruptured, and medical care at the time was limited. For weeks it seemed the family might lose its only provider. L. L. survived, but he came out of the illness thin and badly weakened [3].

To support his family he moved them to Houston, where the wartime shipbuilding industry was booming. A kind foreman gave him light work until he got his strength back. The family lived in a motel that had been converted into wartime housing [3]. So Dennis spent his earliest years in wartime Houston, the littlest of six brothers dressed in their Sunday best for church [3][21]. The family came back to Joaquin in time for his brother Charles to start first grade [3].

The Freeman boys in Houston during World War II [21]

The Freeman boys dressed for church in Houston [21]

Growing Up in Joaquin

Dennis grew up in his father’s house on the farm, in a household of brothers. The 1950 federal census lists ten-year-old Harold Dennis Freeman in Shelby County, Texas, as a son in his parents’ home [9]. Neither of his parents had finished high school, and they wanted more for their boys [3]. All six brothers played football and went to the First United Methodist Church [3].

The two youngest boys looked up to their older brothers [3]. Dennis and Charles, less than two years apart, were especially close [3]. The family’s photographs show them side by side again and again: grinning together for the camera, riding double on the family horse, driving a horse-drawn cart, and tending a calf with their brother Dale [21]. Summers meant the Sabine River, where the family fished from flat-bottomed boats along the bank [21].

Charles and Dennis [21]

Charles and Dennis on horseback [21]

Charles and Dennis with the cart and horse [21]

Dale, Dennis, and Charles with a calf [21]

Charles later remembered being “sandwiched between two competitors, Dennis and Dale,” and credited that spot with sharpening his skills as a negotiator and peacemaker [3]. Dennis’s competitive streak showed on the football field. In Charles’s senior year, Dennis was the team’s star running back [3]. Dennis graduated from Joaquin High School [16].

Charles, Dale, and Dennis [21]

The Freeman family fishing in the Sabine River [21]

Three of Dennis’s four oldest brothers served in uniform during the Korean War era. Two were in the Air Force in Korea, and one was in the Army in Germany [3]. The brother in Germany was J. C., who served with the military police [2]. On April 6, 1955, only a short time after coming home, J. C. died in Shreveport in a tragic accident. He was twenty-three and is buried in Joaquin Cemetery [2][8][9]. Dennis was fourteen. Nine years later, in 1964, the oldest brother, Travis Lee, an Air Force master sergeant, also died young [2].

The Freeman boys, about 1956 [21]

Katherine

Dennis’s wife was Katherine Thomas of Logansport, born November 14, 1940, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norrell Thomas [1][5][16][20]. They were sweethearts as teenagers. In 1958, when Katherine was seventeen, she wrote Dennis a letter that included the line: “I admire you for standing by what you think is right” [5]. Almost fifty years later, their youngest daughter read that letter aloud at his funeral [5].

Dennis and Katherine were married on Wednesday morning, January 24, 1962, in the prayer chapel of the First Methodist Church of Logansport [2][16]. The Reverend Conrad Edwards and the Reverend Harold Lee Price performed the ten o’clock ceremony in the presence of the immediate families. Katherine wore a royal blue suit and carried white French carnations, and her sister, Barbara Thomas, was her attendant. L. L. Freeman stood beside his son as best man [16].

Katherine was a graduate of Logansport High School, a member of Kappa Delta sorority, and had just received her Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from Louisiana Tech. The society page noted that Dennis was a student at Northwestern State College, and that the newlyweds planned to make their first home in Dallas [16]. On the Saturday before the wedding, Mrs. W. J. Garland had honored Katherine with a shower, where Katherine’s mother and Shug Freeman received the guests [16].

“Miss Katherine Thomas Is Bride Of Harold Freeman,” society page, 1962 [16]

They spent nearly forty-six years together, and during his final illness Katherine “never left his side” [1]. They had three daughters: Susan, Kathy, and Pam [1][2].

Education and Career

Dennis graduated from Northwestern State College, now Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches, Louisiana [1][13][16]. Charles and Frances Jackson, Charles’s future wife from Logansport, studied there too [3]. Dennis settled in Logansport and opened the Freeman Insurance Agency. He worked as an independent insurance agent for nearly forty years [1][5]. Owning a small business in a small town put him in daily contact with his neighbors, and he came to know Logansport’s families, businesses, and needs in great detail.

His work also took him well beyond Logansport. He and Katherine went to New York for the convention of the National Association of Independent Insurance Agents at the Hotel Americana. While there, they visited the United Nations and sat in on the General Assembly as U.S. delegate Rogers addressed it. They also visited his brother Charles Freeman, his wife, and their daughters. Frances Freeman, who was in New York working on her doctorate in speech, joined them at the General Assembly [17].

Dennis and Katherine at the United Nations and the Hotel Americana, New York [17]

A Son Who Stayed Close

For more than thirty years Dennis and his family lived about three miles from the Freeman Farm, just over the river on the Louisiana side [2]. In 1986 his home was in Logansport [9]. As L. L. grew older, and later while Shug was a widow, Dennis was one of three sons who lived nearby and helped with the farm work [2]. He would often drive over from his office to have lunch with his parents, do a couple of hours of chores, and then go back to work [2].

L. L. Freeman died in Joaquin on December 27, 1990, at the age of eighty-three. Dennis was fifty [2][8][9]. Shug kept living in the family home on the farm, and Dennis and his brothers helped her keep it running [2]. Britt Annie “Shug” Nunley Freeman died in Joaquin on December 12, 2005, at the age of ninety-six. Dennis was sixty-five [2][9].

His daughters spent many happy summer days with their grandparents, whom the grandchildren called Granddad and Nannie [2]. Dennis’s daughter Kathy later lived on the farm herself and helped keep it running. Her three sons also spent part of their childhood living and working there [2].

Mayor of Logansport

Dennis was first elected mayor of Logansport in 1984 and served until his death in 2007 [4][5] [20]. He won his first three terms, in 1984, 1988, and 1992, as a Democrat. He then switched to the Republican Party and was reelected in 1996, 2000, and 2004 [5]. In 1996 he defeated Andrew D. McGlathery Jr., 437 votes to 271. In 2000 he won a close race against Joe C. Liles, 303 to 295. In 2004 no one ran against him [5]. A regional list of candidates qualifying for municipal office in one of those election years shows “Dennis Freeman, incumbent, mayor” at the head of the Logansport ticket [19]. Official town records of the time address him both as “The Honorable Harold D. Freeman, Mayor” and as “The Honorable Dennis Freeman, Mayor” [12]. When he died, he was about thirteen months from finishing an unprecedented sixth term [5].

Building a Town

Dennis was known for getting things done, which is a lot to say of a small-town mayor [5]. He secured grant after grant for Logansport’s water system, streets, sewers, parks, and town government [1][5]. He helped create the first fire district in DeSoto Parish. He also sponsored local EMT training, which led to the parish’s first ambulance district [1][4].

His work reached well past the town limits. He served as district vice president of the Louisiana Municipal Association, vice chairman of the Coordinating Development Corporation, and a board member of the Sabine River Authority. He sat on the steering committees that developed the Mundy Landfill for DeSoto Parish and the parish’s Alternative School Program, and he was a director of the Bank of Logansport [1][5].

The Bridge and the Highway

The project closest to his heart was a new bridge over the Sabine River on U.S. Highway 84. That bridge connected Joaquin, where he was born, with Logansport, the town he led [4][7]. The existing crossing had been built in 1936. For about sixteen years, Dennis worked patiently with highway officials in Louisiana and Texas to get a replacement [4][7]. He also pushed for the planned Interstate 69 route through western Louisiana to come closer to Logansport [5]. He was still working with transportation officials from both states on new bridges and highways in the weeks before he died [1].

The Riverfront

Dennis wanted to turn Logansport’s riverfront into a park. At the time, the area was an unattractive briar thicket [4][5]. Under his leadership it became a terraced, landscaped entrance to Louisiana for people coming in from Texas on Highway 84. It has walking paths, a gazebo, picnic areas, a pavilion, and a veterans’ memorial, paid for mostly with grants and private donations [4][5].

Civic Life

Dennis was the charter president of the Logansport Lions Club, the Logansport Chamber of Commerce, the Logansport Development Corporation, and the Logansport Athletics Booster Club. He was also a longtime member of the DeSoto Parish Chamber of Commerce [1][5]. When the newly chartered Lions Club installed its first officers, the local paper ran a photograph of the group, with Dennis Freeman as president. The Lions district president at the time was Johnny Jackson, the paternal uncle of Frances Jackson Freeman, Charles’s wife [18][22].

“Logansport Lions Install Officers,” with Dennis Freeman as president of the newly chartered club and Johnny Jackson as district president [18][22]

Faith

Dennis loved God and his church [1]. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Logansport, the church where he had been married, and he sang in its choir for as long as he was able [1][2][16]. His family asked that memorial gifts go to that church and to God’s Food Pantry of Logansport [1]. Katherine Freeman and Frances Freeman had helped bring the food pantry to town in 2000 [15].

Final Year

In his last year, Dennis kept working even as he was being treated for bladder cancer [9]. When the Georgia-Pacific plywood plant, Logansport’s largest employer, announced it would close, he worked with state and local agencies to help the workers who lost their jobs and to make up for the economic loss [5]. In the fall of 2007 he ran for the Louisiana House of Representatives in District 7, which covers all of DeSoto Parish and part of Caddo Parish. He was on the ballot in the October 20 primary while still in treatment [5].

Dennis Freeman died in Logansport on Friday, November 23, 2007, at the age of sixty-seven, “after a heroic battle with cancer.” His obituary said, “He loved his family so dearly that he fought until the end” [1][9][20].

Farewell

Visitation was held at the First United Methodist Church of Logansport on Sunday, November 25, and the funeral was there the next afternoon, with the Reverend Kemper Smith officiating [1]. About three hundred people came, including the mayors of Mansfield, Grand Cane, Stonewall, and Natchitoches and other elected officials from around the parish [5]. Reverend Smith said Dennis was “passionate about what he believed… His determination served him well because he was a born leader” [5].

Pam read her mother’s 1958 letter to the congregation, with its line about standing by what you think is right, and then asked, “Doesn’t that sound familiar?” [5]

Former Mansfield mayor Harold Cornett, one of the honorary pallbearers, called him “a great leader who never said ‘no’ to responsibility” [5]. Steve Stephens of Logansport said, “Dennis understood problems and knew how to get things done in government. His death is a loss for this community and this area” [5].

Dennis was buried in the Logansport City Cemetery, near the riverfront he had transformed [1] [5]. A tall granite cross marks the grave he shares with Katherine. Its base carries the verse “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,” and a flat stone at its foot reads simply “Mayor of Logansport, 1984 – 2007” [5][20].

The Freeman headstone, Logansport City Cemetery [20]

“Mayor of Logansport, 1984 – 2007” [20]

He was survived by his wife, Katherine; his daughters and their families, Susan and Steve Simmons of Frisco, Texas, Kathy and Billy Alger of Logansport, and Pam Freeman of Logansport; and his five grandchildren, Bryce, Craig, and Aaron Alger, Sean Simmons, and Ava Katherine Vowell, “who were the light of his life.” He was also survived by his brothers Billy, Dale, and Charles and their wives, his mother-in-law, his in-laws, and many nieces and nephews [1]. His parents and his brothers J. C. and Travis had died before him [1].

Legacy

Mayor Katherine Freeman

Dennis’s work did not stop when he died, because Katherine carried it on. In November 2007, the month of his death, she was appointed mayor of Logansport to finish his term [34]. Her first year in office brought a moment of remembrance: on July 4, 2008, the town dedicated the riverfront park to his memory as the Dennis Freeman Memorial Riverfront Park [6]. That summer she qualified for a full term as mayor, and no one ran against her [14]. She was the town’s mayor in her own right from then on, and the town’s annual audits were addressed to “The Honorable Katherine Freeman, Mayor and Town Council” [38][39].

In November 2012, Logansport voters re-elected her to a second full term. She won 458 of the 573 votes cast, about 80 percent [34][35]. During that term she saw the bridge project her husband had started reach construction. She spoke for the town on the radio as work began [40], and she stood with officials from both states at the January 2014 groundbreaking in the park that bears his name [7]. Her time in office also had the everyday work of a small-town mayor, such as having the police department enforce the town’s ordinance on overgrown yards when the grass got, in her word, “horrible” [42]. The Town of Logansport’s own history of the park notes that the bridge Dennis “worked so hard on” became a reality “during the term of his wife, Mayor Katherine Freeman” [4]. The first of the twin bridges opened to traffic in January 2016, while she was still mayor [26][27].

Katherine served as mayor until after the 2016 election, about nine years in all. Together, she and Dennis led Logansport for more than thirty years. In 2016 she ran for the town council instead of another term as mayor, and she received more votes than any other candidate in a field of twelve. In 2020 she again led the council field [36][37]. She still serves on the Logansport Town Council [41], and she is chairman of the board of the Housing Authority of the Town of Logansport [43].

On January 10, 2014, transportation officials from Texas and Louisiana gathered at the Dennis Freeman Memorial Park to break ground on the $20.4 million U.S. 84 Sabine River Bridge replacement. The new bridges would link Joaquin and Logansport [7]. “This project has been in the planning for twenty-five plus years,” Mayor Katherine Freeman said, “and our community is excited that it is finally becoming a reality” [7]. The Town of Logansport’s own account says the bridge “he worked so hard on, is a reality” [4].

The Twin Bridges

Dennis had pictured a crossing worthy of the two towns, and the finished work was more than a single replacement span. It was a pair of one-way, two-lane bridges, each with twelve-foot lanes and wide shoulders, built by James Construction Group of Baton Rouge to carry the roughly 12,500 motorists who crossed the Sabine each day [7]. The first of the twins, the eastbound bridge, opened to traffic in January 2016, and for a few weeks the new concrete span stood beside the old 1936 bridge it was replacing [26][27]. The old bridge was then taken down, and the westbound twin rose in its place [26][28]. The 1936 bridge had been documented by the Historic American Engineering Record as the only known variable-depth steel girder bridge in Texas [33].

January 2016: the old 1936 bridge (left) beside the new eastbound bridge, with the riverfront park on the Logansport bank. Drone video still, Light & Drawing [27]

February 14, 2016: the old bridge coming down beside the new eastbound span. Drone video still, Light & Drawing [28]

On Monday, May 8, 2017, the Texas Department of Transportation and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development gathered on the new westbound bridge, on the Logansport side, for a ribbon cutting, followed by a program and reception at the DeSoto Parish Library in Logansport. TxDOT called it a celebration of “the completion of these twin bridges,” a “historic event” to be “celebrated by both Texas and Louisiana.” The speakers included TxDOT Lufkin District Engineer Cheryl Flood, Texas Transportation Commissioner Jeff Austin III, and Louisiana Transportation Secretary Dr. Shawn Wilson [23][24]. A television report that day described the “twin bridges” that “join two states and two towns on the Interstate 69 corridor,” with a pedestrian walkway alongside the traffic lanes. One woman said she “hated to see the old bridge come down, but this is so much better,” and the mayors of both towns spoke of the commerce the bridges would bring [26]. TxDOT later recognized the Sabine River Bridge project in its Texas Project Award Program [32].

The ribbon cutting on the new westbound bridge, May 8, 2017. Photo by Justin Mott, Center Broadcasting Company [24]

The Sabine at Logansport from the air, 2020, with the railroad truss bridge and the new highway bridge. Drone video still, 501 Drone [29]

Today the twin bridges carry U.S. 84 across the Sabine beside the Dennis Freeman Memorial Riverfront Park, which lies on the Sabine River where Toledo Bend Lake begins [22][25]. Anglers fish from the bank below the park, and the Veterans Memorial Wall stands at its south end, very near the bridge [4][25]. Just east of the park fountain, among the flowers, a bronze marker carries the words that best describe how Dennis looked at his town: “If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be” [6]. The bridges and the park he imagined now stand side by side at the river crossing between the town where he was born and the town he served.

Watch the bridges and the river from the air

• “New bridge open between Logansport, La. and Joaquin, Texas,” Light & Drawing, January 21, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v9hKsA3tAA [27]
• “Removing the U. S. 84 Bridge over Sabine River,” Light & Drawing, February 16, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqZ80IzB8us [28]
• “Sunset over Sabine River in Logansport, Louisiana / Joaquin, Texas,” Light & Drawing, February 8, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fgl9n3b8Jk [30]
• “Logansport, Louisiana,” 501 Drone, September 3, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOKHcu71HlA [29]
• “Logansport River Bridge Ribbon Cutting,” Center Broadcasting Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoPzk92IihE [31]

Dennis Freeman started out as the sixth son of a sawmill worker and master carpenter on a small East Texas farm, and he ended his life as a respected public servant in the Louisiana town across the river. His obituary summed him up as a “true public servant, Christian, father, husband, and friend to all who knew him” [1].

References

1. “Dennis Freeman” (obituary). Shreveport Times, November 25, 2007; reprinted in Shelby County Today, Obituaries 2007 November. https://scttx.com/obituaries/obituaries-2007-november. Clipping of the obituary page with portrait in the Freeman family collection.
2. Freeman, Frances Jackson. “The Freeman Family Farm” (The Freeman Farm of Shelby County). CommunicatingLife2, March 25, 2020. http://communicatinglife2.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-freeman-family-farm.html
3. Freeman, Frances Jackson. “Charles C. Freeman — An Amazing Life.” Communicating Life2, November 2015. http://communicatinglife2.blogspot.com/2015/11/
4. Town of Logansport. “Dennis Freeman Memorial River Park.” https://townoflogansport.com/community/river-park
5. “Dennis Freeman.” Alchetron (encyclopedia article on Harold Dennis Freeman). https://alchetron.com/Dennis-Freeman
6. Louisiana Office of Tourism. “Dennis Freeman Memorial Riverfront Park.” Explore Louisiana. https://www.explorelouisiana.com/parks-nature/dennis-freeman-memorial-riverfront-park
7. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. “TxDOT and DOTD kick off Sabine River Bridge project with groundbreaking,” January 10, 2014. https://wwwapps.dotd.la.gov/administration/announcements/announcement.aspx?key=4193
8. Shelby County Texas History. “Shelby County Dead, Fraz–Fu” (cemetery listings: Larnell Lee Freeman; J. C. Freeman, Joaquin Cemetery). http://www.shelbycountytexashistory.net/Shelby/Shelbydead/Fraz-Fu.htm
9. Freeman family research file compiled by Frances Freeman: online family-tree extracts for Harold Dennis Freeman (birth, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas, April 23, 1940; 1950 U.S. Census, Shelby County, Texas; residence, Logansport, Louisiana, 1986; death, Logansport, De Soto Parish, Louisiana, November 23, 2007; cause of death, cancer of the bladder); for J. C. Freeman (death, Shreveport, Louisiana, April 6, 1955); for Larnell Lee “L. L.” Freeman (death, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas, December 27, 1990); and for Britt Anne “Shug” Nunley Freeman (death, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas, December 12, 2005). Family collection; not online.
10. Watson & Sons Funeral Home. “Verlon Dale Freeman” (obituary), May 2025. https://www.watsonandsonsfh.com/obituaries/verlon-freeman
11. Shelby County Today. “Billy Freeman” (obituary), Obituaries 2012 January. https://scttx.com/obituaries/obituaries-2012-january
12. Louisiana Legislative Auditor. Town of Logansport, Louisiana, audit correspondence for year ended December 31, 1995, addressed to “The Honorable Harold D. Freeman, Mayor.” https://app.lla.state.la.us/PublicReports.nsf/86256EA9004C005986256EDF00575352/$FILE/40bf44fe.PDF
13. Northwestern State University Athletics. “Notable alumni.” https://nsudemons.com/sports/2008/1/24/989434242
14. KSLA News 12. “DeSoto Parish” (2008 qualifying results: Mayor, Town of Logansport, Katherine Freeman, unopposed), July 11, 2008. https://www.ksla.com/story/8658312/desoto-parish/
15. Town of Logansport. “Organizations” (God’s Food Pantry). https://townoflogansport.com/community/organizations
16. “Miss Katherine Thomas Is Bride Of Harold Freeman.” Society page (Clarice Sorey, Society Editor), newspaper title not shown on clipping, late January 1962. Clipping image in the Freeman family collection.
17. “Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Freeman…” Photographs with captions of Dennis and Katherine Freeman at the United Nations and the Hotel Americana, New York, newspaper title and date not shown on clipping. Clipping image in the Freeman family collection.
18. “Logansport Lions Install Officers.” Logansport, Louisiana, newspaper (photo credited “Enterprise-Progress Photo”), a Thursday in March, year not legible on clipping. Clipping image in the Freeman family collection.
19. Candidate qualifying list for northwest Louisiana municipal elections (“…177 Qualify”), DeSoto Parish section: “Logansport: Dennis Freeman, incumbent, mayor.” Newspaper title and date not shown on clipping. Clipping image in the Freeman family collection.
20. Headstone and footstone of Harold Dennis Freeman and Katherine Thomas Freeman, Logansport City Cemetery, Logansport, Louisiana. Photographs in the Freeman family collection.
21. Freeman family photographs: the Freeman boys in Houston during World War II; dressed for church in Houston; Charles and Dennis; Charles and Dennis on horseback; Charles and Dennis with cart and horse; Dale, Dennis, and Charles with calf; Charles, Dale, and Dennis; the Freeman family fishing in the Sabine River; the Freeman boys about 1956. Freeman family collection.
22. Freeman, Frances Jackson. Family information provided November 7, 2026: identification of Johnny Jackson, Lions district president, as her paternal uncle; description of the completed twin bridges on Highway 84 and of the Dennis Freeman Memorial Park on the Sabine River where Toledo Bend Lake begins.
23. Texas Department of Transportation (posted by Center Broadcasting Company). “Ribbon Cutting Event Planned for US 84 Sabine River Bridge,” May 2017. https://cbc-radio.com/local-news-blog/303639
24. Mott, Justin. “Logansport Bridge Ribbon Cutting Photos.” Center Broadcasting Company, May 2017. https://cbc-radio.com/local-news-blog/304134
25. Town of Logansport. “Sabine River.” https://townoflogansport.com/logansport/sabine-river
26. AARoads Forum. “US 84 Sabine River Bridge Replacement Project” (thread quoting TxDOT’s January 2016 traffic-shift release and the May 8, 2017 East Texas television report). https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=11372.0
27. Light & Drawing. “New bridge open between Logansport, La. and Joaquin, Texas” (aerial drone video, 3:10), YouTube, January 21, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v9hKsA3tAA
28. Light & Drawing. “Removing the U. S. 84 Bridge over Sabine River” (aerial drone video, footage taken February 14, 2016), YouTube, February 16, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqZ80IzB8us
29. 501 Drone. “Logansport, Louisiana” (aerial drone video, 4:26), YouTube, September 3, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOKHcu71HlA
30. Light & Drawing. “Sunset over Sabine River in Logansport, Louisiana / Joaquin, Texas” (aerial drone video, footage taken February 3, 2016), YouTube, February 8, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fgl9n3b8Jk
31. Center Broadcasting Company. “Logansport River Bridge Ribbon Cutting” (video), YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoPzk92IihE
32. Egis. “Sabine River Bridge project recognized at TxDOT luncheon,” September 2017. https://www.egis-usa.com/2017/09/sabine-river-bridge-project-recognized-at-txdot-luncheon/
33. Library of Congress, Historic American Engineering Record. “Sabine River Bridge, U.S. Highway 84, Joaquin, Shelby County, TX” (HAER TX-47). https://www.loc.gov/item/tx0774/
34. Associated Press. “2 DeSoto Mayors Appointed After Deaths Have Been Re-elected.” News Talk 96.5 KPEL, November 7, 2012. https://kpel965.com/2-desoto-mayors-appointed-after-deaths-have-been-re-elected/
35. Louisiana Secretary of State. Official election results, November 6, 2012, DeSoto Parish: Mayor, Town of Logansport (Katherine Freeman 458 votes, 79.93 percent; William David Dowling 115). https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/static/2012-11-06/resultsRace/16
36. Louisiana Secretary of State. Official election results, November 8, 2016, DeSoto Parish: Mayor and Council Members, Town of Logansport (Katherine Freeman, 310 votes, highest of twelve council candidates). https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/static/2016-11-08/resultsRace/16
37. Louisiana Secretary of State. Official election results, November 3, 2020, DeSoto Parish: Council Members, Town of Logansport (Katherine Freeman, 360 votes, highest of nine candidates). https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/static/2020-11-03/resultsRace/16
38. Louisiana Legislative Auditor. Town of Logansport, Louisiana, Financial Statements for the Year Ended December 31, 2008 (addressed to “The Honorable Katherine Freeman, Mayor and Town Council”). https://app.lla.state.la.us/PublicReports.nsf/59FA5795EEFD47BE862575F2005B5F0D/$FILE/00010E10.pdf
39. Louisiana Legislative Auditor. Town of Logansport, Louisiana, Financial Statements for the Year Ended December 31, 2014. https://app.lla.state.la.us/PublicReports.nsf/A3B29E9E314B28B186257E7A00536A9E/$FILE/00008B6A.pdf
40. Red River Radio. Quarterly issues and programs list, first quarter 2014: “Long-awaited construction begins on Sabine River Bridge at Logansport, La.,” aired January 6, 2014, with interview of Katherine Freeman, mayor. https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/legacy/sites/rrr/files/RRR_Ascertainment_Files_First_Quarter_2014.pdf
41. Town of Logansport. “Town Council.” https://townoflogansport.com/government/town-council
42. Center Broadcasting Company. “Town of Logansport issuing citations for unkept yards.” https://cbc-radio.com/local-news-blog/107831
43. Louisiana Legislative Auditor. Housing Authority of the Town of Logansport, Louisiana, report for the year ended June 30, 2025 (board: Katherine Freeman, Chairman). https://app.lla.state.la.us/PublicReports.nsf/0/D15E171196EC9BAC86258DB10080AB71/$FILE/00009E7B.pdf