[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 97 (Monday, July 12, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1516]
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                 IN MEMORY OF JUDGE ROBERT T. DONNELLY

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                            HON. IKE SKELTON

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 12, 1999

  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, it is with deep sadness that I inform the 
House of the death of former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Robert T. 
Donnelly, 74, of Jefferson City, Missouri.
  Judge Donnelly was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Lebanon, Missouri, a son of 
Thomas J. and Sybil True Donnelly. He was married Nov. 16, 1946, in 
Little Rock, Arkansas, to Wanda Sue ``Susie'' Oates, who survives at 
the home.
  A graduate of Lebanon High School, he attended the University of 
Tulsa and Ohio State University. He graduated from the University of 
Missouri-Columbia, receiving his law degree from the university in 
1949. An Army veteran of World War II, he received the Purple Heart and 
a Bronze Star.
  Judge Donnelly practiced law in Lebanon, Missouri, with Phil M. 
Donnelly and David Donnelly from 1952 to 1965. He was an assistant 
Attorney General of Missouri from 1957 to 1963.
  He was appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court by Governor Warren E. 
Hearnes in 1965, and served as chief justice from 1973 to 1975, and 
from 1981 to 1983. He was the first chief justice to address the 
General Assembly of Missouri on the State of the Judiciary in January 
1974.
  Judge Donnelly was active in the community. He was a member and elder 
at First Presbyterian Church, a member of Lebanon Masonic Lodge, A.F. & 
A.M. and a 50-year member of the Missouri Bar. He served on the Lebanon 
Board of Education from 1959 to 1965; on the board of the School of 
Religion, Drury College, Springfield, from 1958 to 1963; and on the 
board of the Missouri School of Religion, Columbia, from 1971 to 1972.
  He was deputy chairman of the National Conference of Chief Justices 
in 1975. In 1998 he published ``A Whistle in the Night,'' his 
autobiography and memoir.
  Judge Robert T. Donnelly will be missed by all who had the privilege 
to know him. I know the Members of the House will join me in extending 
heartfelt condolences to his family: his wife, Susie; his two sons, 
Thomas and Brian; his sister, Helen; and his three grandchildren.

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