[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 107 (Tuesday, July 27, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1661]
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                  IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM WILSON STERRETT

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                            HON. IKE SKELTON

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 27, 1999

  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, it has come to my attention that William 
Wilson Sterrett, of Independence, Missouri, passed away on June 20, 
1999.
  Born June 15, 1909, in Slater, Missouri, Mr. Sterrett was the son of 
the late Joseph B. and Elizabeth Galdwell Sterrett. He married Rachel 
W. Finch on December 19, 1936, in Washington, DC.
  Mr. Sterrett was a 1926 graduate of Slater Higher School and a 1930 
graduate of Missouri Valley College in Marshall. He attended the 
University of Missouri-Columbia for two years and graduated from George 
Washington, University Law School in 1935. He served as Deputy Circuit 
Clerk of Saline County from 1932-1934. He passed the Bar in December 
1934 and practiced law in Saline County for 53 yeas at Sterrett Law 
Office. He was secretary to Congressman William Nelson in Washington, 
DC, from 1934-40. He was with the General Accounting Office in 
Washington, DC, for two years, the War Production board for a year, and 
the Air Transport Command for two years. He returned to Slater in 1946 
where he served as city attorney from 1946-1981.
  Mr. Sterret was active in the community. He served as chairman of the 
Saline County Red Cross and on the Slater Public School board from 
1948-52. He was a member, deacon, trustee, elder and Sunday school 
teacher at the Slater Presbyterian Church. He was president of the 
Saline County Bar Association from 1983-91 and vice president from 
1991-93. He was a longtime member of the Slater Rotary club where he 
was a past president and the club's first Paul Harris Fellow in 1995. 
He was a United States Army/Air Corps veteran of World War II and a 
member of the American Legion Post #78 in Slater. He was a Boy Scout 
Counselor since 1950 and received the Missouri Valley College 
Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1996. He served on the board of directors 
at the State Bank of Slater for 53 years.
  Mr. Speaker, I know the Members of the House will join me in 
extending heartfelt condolences to his wife, Rachel; his two sons, 
Joseph and James; and his three grandchildren.

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