[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 79 (Monday, June 2, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1098]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CONGRATULATING BOYD AND IRENE MADDOX ON 75 YEARS OF MARRIAGE

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                            HON. JERRY LEWIS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, June 2, 2003

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, we in America have a penchant 
celebrating milestones in just about every endeavor, be it sports, 
business or even school attendance. But today I would like to recognize 
a truly amazing milestone, which is only rarely reached in our modern 
world: the 75th wedding anniversary of Boyd and Irene Maddox of San 
Bernardino County.
  Boyd Maddox and Irene Crozier are lifelong residents of the Old West, 
growing up in the rugged early 20st-Century New Mexico Territory, 
marrying in Tombstone, Arizona and finally settling at the 250,000-acre 
Las Flores Ranch in the Mojave Desert--a working cattle ranch that 
still provides good employment to the cowboys of the 21st Century.
  Boyd was born in Lordsburg, New Mexico in 1908 and grew up on a 
cattle ranch where he got to know a young neighbor girl named Sandra 
Day--later to become Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. After 
graduating from New Mexico Military Academy, Boyd became a messenger 
for Continental Bank of Los Angeles, and then worked his way up through 
a series of banks to become chief bookkeeper of the Douglas State Bank 
in southern Arizona.
  Irene had graduated from Tombstone High School, and married the young 
bank officer on June 10, 1928 at Old Adobe Episcopal Church in her 
hometown. The couple homesteaded for 2 years, but the depression forced 
Boyd to go to work for the Civilian Conservation Corps as a bookkeeper.
  A former bank employer had purchased a cattle ranch--the Las Flores 
Ranch in the Mojave Desert, and urged the Maddox's to come west and 
help him manage it. They finally visited in September 1938, and never 
left. Boyd became the working general manager and stayed for the next 
50 years until his retirement. Irene raised Boyd, Jr., who is now 67.
  Mr. Speaker, Boyd and Irene Maddox are enjoying an active retirement, 
traveling, visiting friends and reminiscing. I'm sure we would be 
spellbound by the stories they could tell of their remarkable life 
together all these years. Please join me in congratulating them on 
their 75th wedding anniversary, and wishing them many more years to 
come.

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