[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 49 (Tuesday, April 28, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E683]
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                  TRIBUTE TO ROULETTE AND JESSIE WOLFE

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                           HON. MARION BERRY

                              of arkansas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 28, 1998

  Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a wonderful 
couple, Roulette and Jessie Wolfe. Roulette and Jessie are the classic 
example of people that work hard, play by the rules, and achieve great 
success.
  They were the kind of people that made you always feel that you were 
welcome and that they were always happy they saw you. Through hard 
work, thrift, and fair dealings they achieved financial and personal 
success.
  They were always ready to do their part for the community. It made no 
difference if it was for the school, town, people in need, or the 
church they were always there to do their part. They provided a 
Christian witness by great example. They treated their fellow man with 
respect and dignity.
  Roulette was a self-taught engineer and farmer of great skill. His 
buildings were always sound and pleasing to the eye. His crops were 
always the same way.
  Their life cannot be described without the mention of Jessie's skills 
as a fisherman. She was a sport fisherman of great ability and was 
highly respected in a community of people that contains many skilled in 
this area.
  They gave marriage the image that is was intended to have and were 
clearly devoted to their family and church. It remains difficult to 
have church without them in their customary place on the front row of 
Gillett Methodist Church.
  They accepted their lot philosophically and moved on to the next 
task.
  Their life was what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he envisioned 
the agrarian society.
  They were the kind of people that made America the great Nation it is 
today.

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