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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 18, 2022

Longtime Paris attorney William R. “Bill” Neese, 75, died Saturday after being struck by a Dodge Ram pickup truck on Highway 79 near Paris. The driver, who was still at the scene when deputies arrived, was not charged. Neese was a partner in the Neese & Neese Law Firm with his daughter, Ellen Neese Adams. He also had spent eight years as county attorney for neighboring Weakley County. Neese was an active community member, coaching the Henry County No Fly Zone scholastic skeet shooting team and writing about his childhood in Henry County for the PARIS! Magazine. Funeral arrangements by the McEvoy Funeral Home are pending.