[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 157 (Tuesday, November 9, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2317]
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                       IN MEMORY OF BARBARA KNIPP

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                           HON. RALPH M. HALL

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 9, 1999

  Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
woman who was an outstanding citizen of the Fourth District of Texas--
Barbara Alice Knipp of Ladonia, who died on July 3, 1999, at her 
residence. Barbara was devoted to her community and to her family, and 
she will be missed by all who knew her.
  Barbara was born on April 20, 1921, in English, Red River County, TX, 
the daughter of Theodore R. and Annie Bell Hunter Duncan. She was a 
member of Business and Professional Women, worked as a dental assistant 
and office manager for 34 years, taught at Lawton College of Dentistry 
at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and worked in 
office management and as a consultant. She was president of American 
Legion Post 247 in Honey Grove and served as fourth district chaplain. 
She also served as Girls State chairman for Post 247 and Post 17.
  In 1993 she married Joseph Daniel Knipp in Wolfe City. She is 
survived by her husband, son and daughter-in-law Don and Bobbie 
Callaway; sons Clay, Ray and Bobby Knipp; daughter and son-in-law Joan 
and Kenneth Alexander; daughter Margaret Manning; sister and brother-
in-law Kay and Don Loden; sister-in-law and brother-in-law Bobbie and 
Sam Smith; 18 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and four great-
great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother 
Martin Duncan, a baby brother and a son, Kenneth Callaway.
  Barbara was a kind and caring person. She was a longtime valued close 
personal friend to me and my entire family. She loved her family and 
loved life. Barbara, in her last battle against cancer, fought 
bravely--as did her husband, J.D., and her entire family. It is for 
Barbara--and others in the desperate and menacing clutches of cancer, 
that we continue to fund medical research--and use the bioreactor in 
the space station to seek answers to cancer, diabetes, heart, and other 
dreaded diseases. So Mr. Speaker, as we adjourn today, let us do so in 
memory of Barbara Alice Knipp and her many contributions to the life of 
her community and to her family.

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