[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 159 (Wednesday, November 12, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2329]
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                       TRIBUTE TO EUGENE LESESNE

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                         HON. WILLIAM J. COYNE

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 12, 1997

  Mr. COYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to one of my 
constituents, Mr. Eugene Lesesne of Pittsburgh, PA.
  Eugene Lesesne, a U.S. Army veteran of World War I, will be 100 years 
old on November 19. Born in Sumter County, SC, he served in the 
Quartermaster Corps in France in the final months of the First World 
War. He moved to Pittsburgh shortly after his discharge in 1919 and has 
lived there ever since.
  A quiet, unassuming person, Mr. Lesesne lived a life of hard work as 
a laborer. He was married twice, widowed twice, and was a father of 
four. Mr. Lesesne attributes his long life to the good habits instilled 
by his parents, whom he describes as ``good Presbyterians who taught me 
to stay away from bad things.'' A longtime member of Grace Memorial 
Presbyterian Church, in 1968 he joined with church people of different 
races to form the Community of Reconciliation, an interracial, 
interdenominational church. He continues to sing tenor in that church's 
choir to this day and is noted for the natty way he dresses.
  I commend him to this body as an example of a man who served his 
country overseas in his youth and came back home to lead an exemplary 
salt-of-the-Earth life.

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