[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 121 (Friday, September 5, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1717]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         A TRIBUTE TO MR. ROBERT W. CULLEY OF HILL CITY, KANSAS

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                            HON. JERRY MORAN

                               of kansas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 4, 2003

  Mr. MORAN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
man who had a positive effect on the lives of many people in Northwest 
Kansas and across the state. We mourn the death of Mr. Robert W. Culley 
of Hill City, Kansas.
  A life-long Kansan, Mr. Culley never hesitated to answer the call to 
serve his family, community, state and country. He lived a life guided 
by the morals and values we hold dear in rural America: strong beliefs, 
faithful service and absolute integrity.
  Shortly after his graduation from college, Bob volunteered for the 
Navy in June of 1942. After basic training in Rhode Island, Bob was 
assigned to the 60th Construction Battalion and was sent to the Solomon 
Islands in the South Pacific to build an airfield for future operations 
against Japan. Bob continued his military service, graduating from the 
Supply School at Harvard and then serving aboard the battleship USS 
Texas until the end of World War II.
  Bob returned to his hometown of Mullinville, Kansas, where he spent 
twenty years farming and ranching. Bob started a new career when he 
accepted an offer to become the President of the Consolidated State 
Bank in Hill City.
  It was during his tenure at the bank that I was fortunate to have the 
opportunity and pleasure to work with Mr. Culley. As a recent college 
graduate, I quickly came to admire his intelligence, integrity and 
dignity. Working for Bob taught me a great deal about banking, but even 
more about being a good person. I know that I am better for having 
known him and worked with him.
  He contributed an endless amount of time in making his community a 
better place to do business and raise a family.
  Most important to Bob was his family. Over the course of 61 years 
together, he and his wife Catherine raised a son and daughter, Tom and 
Sara, and devoted endless love and attention to his two grandchildren.
  He was a member of the United Methodist Church, the Hill City Rotary 
Club, the Masonic Lodge, the Order of the Eastern Star, the South 
Solomon Shrine Club, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 
the Hill City Elks Lodge, the Graham County Historical Society, the 
Graham County Community Foundation and the Graham County Hospital 
Board.
  Bob also served on the Fort Hays State University Endowment Board and 
was a past president. He was involved in the David and Mary Rush 
Scholarship Trust, where he and other trustees awarded scholarships to 
Graham County High School graduates.
  Through his kindness and service, Robert Culley made his community, 
state, and nation a better place. I join his many friends and admirers 
in extending my deepest sympathies to Catherine and her family during 
their time of loss.

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