[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 22, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H8986-H8987]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TRIBUTE TO MAJOR GENERAL FRANK WORTH ELLIOTT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Ewing] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, I come here tonight saddened with the 
responsibility of informing this House of the loss of a great American, 
a man who served his country for many years, a man who reached the rank 
of Major General in the Air Force, a citizen of the 15th district of 
Illinois and a friend and somebody who will be missed a great deal by 
all who knew him.
  Mr. Speaker, memorial services for U.S. Air Force Major General Frank 
Worth Elliott of Rantoul, Illinois, will be held at the United 
Methodist Church

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in that community on Friday of this week. Private burial will take 
place at a later time.
  Mr. Elliott was born on December 2, 1924, in Statesville, North 
Carolina, son of Frank W. and Lois Young Elliott. He married Evaughn 
``Bonnie'' Close on January 7, 1950, at Rapid City, South Dakota. His 
wife survives him. He is also survived by two sons, Frank Elliott of 
Santiago, Chile; Jeff Elliott of Albany, Georgia; and a brother, Jim 
Elliott of North Carolina, along with five grandchildren in whom he 
took great pride and affection.
  General Elliott graduated from high school in 1941, and he attended 
college in California and in North Carolina, before he enlisted in 
December of 1942 in the U.S. Air Force. He later did complete his 
college work at Charleston, Illinois, at Eastern Illinois University in 
1973.
  He completed pilot's training and was commissioned a Second 
Lieutenant in March of 1944. He completed a tour of combat duty as an 
air crew commander of B-24s with the 15th Air Force in Italy during 
April of 1945, and he was promoted to Captain in that same year.
  General Elliott remained in the service after World War II. He served 
in a number of different capacities, in operational supply and aircraft 
maintenance positions, until 1963 when he was promoted to the grade of 
Colonel while serving as the Deputy Commander for an operations wing of 
B-52s based in California.
  He has attended the War College right here in Washington, D.C. 
General Elliott commanded the 92nd Bomb Wing at Fairchild Air Force 
Base in Washington from January 1969 to January 1970, when he was 
promoted to Brigadier General. He was the commander of the 14th 
Strategic Air Division at Beale Air Force Base, California, and from 
1970 to July of 1971, he was assigned to the Air Force base in Thailand 
as Commander of the 307th Strategic Wing.
  General Elliott was promoted to Major General and then as Commander 
of the Chanute Technical Training Center at Chanute, Illinois, which 
brought him into Illinois again, and into the 15th Congressional 
District. He served there with distinction. He retired from the Air 
Force in September of 1975 after completing 33 years of active service.
  Later, after a few years of retirement, we were so pleased when 
General Elliott returned to Rantoul to serve as an economic development 
consultant to the Village of Rantoul. This was at a time when the 
community of Rantoul was quite fearful. There was a great deal of 
concern in the community because the Chanute Air Force Base was being 
closed under the base closure passed by this Congress. A large number 
of jobs were being lost to the community.
  General Elliott was a man for all seasons, a man who came to the 
rescue of his adopted community. He served them well. He will be 
greatly missed. I am glad to come here tonight to put this in the 
Record for his memory.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Brady). Under a previous order of the 
House, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost] is recognized for 5 
minutes.

  [Mr. FROST addressed the House. His remarks will appear hereafter in 
the Extensions of Remarks.]

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