[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 142 (Saturday, October 10, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2011]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO GEORGE WIMBERLY

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                           HON. MARION BERRY

                              of arkansas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 9, 1998

  Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a great 
friend, great Arkansan, and great American. I speak of Mr. George 
Wimberly, who has served his community as a member of the City Manager 
Board for the City of Little Rock; Mayor of the City of Little Rock, 
Arkansas; and as a member of the Arkansas General Assembly. All of 
these positions are significant, but they are completely overshadowed 
by his accomplishments as a friend and servant to his fellow man.
  George has owned and operated a neighborhood pharmacy, Buice Drug 
Store, in the Stiff Station area of Little Rock for over forty years. 
He is personally involved in the day to day care of each and every one 
of his customers. George provides not only medicine, advice and 
counsel, love, attention and service, but he also has a genuine concern 
for the well being of everyone he knows. Every person that comes in 
contact with George gets the same consideration.
  When George Wimberly is your friend you know that there is one person 
in the world that you can count on. He has been my dear friend since 
childhood and has befriended generations of my family members. He is a 
wealth of knowledge about our heritage and when he reads this he will 
say, ``What would Wimpy say about this?''
  He has provided free medical advice, service, and products for anyone 
in need. He continues to check on shut-ins and the disabled in the 
community and is the only link to the outside world for many of them. 
He is from the school that thinks character and honesty are premier 
qualities and practices these beliefs.
  Because he has lived and served among us for 78 years we are better 
for it and the world is a better place to live. As they say in the 
place I come from, the One Horse Store, he is a ``good man'' and I am 
proud to call him my friend.

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