[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 150 (Thursday, December 7, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2147]
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               TRIBUTE TO MRS. LENA ROBERTA MURRELL WHITE

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                         HON. ROBERT E. ANDREWS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, December 7, 2000

  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute the cherished American 
tradition of motherhood. That tradition is exemplified in an 
extraordinary mother by the name of Mrs. Lena Roberta Murrell White. 
Daughter, Sister, Wife, Mother and Friend. Mrs. Lena White has been and 
is all of these and more. She was daughter Lena growing up in the 
farming country of North Carolina. Younger sister in a large brood she 
was a shining light in that big family. She was wife to James E. 
Murrell and bore him nine children, raising them all in love and 
happiness while working harder than any three people. After his passing 
she was wife to James White and took his children as her own, loving 
and protecting them. And everywhere she has gone there are a host of 
friends eager for her return. From the streets, hedges and rows of 
Greenville, North Carolina through the well kept manicured lawns of 
Wilmington, Delaware to the hustle and bustle of Camden, New Jersey, 
her friends are legion. Now in her eightieth year she can reach out to 
a large family of adoring children, grandchildren and great 
grandchildren. She continues as an example to us all of living a life 
in harmony with God. We love her and always shall, and today we honor 
her in this place through this body for length of days.

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