[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 71 (Wednesday, May 19, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H3379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   HAPPY 102ND BIRTHDAY TO MRS. MAE BELL CARTER OF WOODLAND, GEORGIA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Gingrey) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a great 
Georgian who has lived to witness almost half our State's history. Born 
in 1902, Mrs. Mae Bell Carter of Woodland, Georgia, will turn 102 years 
young on May 29.
  Mrs. Carter was born in Woodland, married in Woodland, and raised her 
family in Woodland. Needless to say, she is a fixture in that community 
and the mother of the mayor and a member of the city council. Mrs. 
Carter obviously instilled in her children the heart for public service 
that she has personified for her entire life.
  Mr. Speaker, she was long a member of the ``Mothers Board'' that 
performed missionary work for the people of Talbot County, nursing the 
sick and bringing food to the less fortunate. Perhaps her enthusiasm 
for mission work springs from her long affiliation with the aptly named 
Friendship Baptist Church in Woodland where she has been a member for 
at least 90 years.
  Her family says in all her years she has been as fashionable as she 
has been charitable. She is always finely attired and actually walked 
every day to the post office wearing high-heel shoes. I can attest to 
this, Mr. Speaker. I met with her recently during a Medicare 
prescription drug card town hall meeting down in Talbot County. What a 
fine, distinguished lady she is and a credit to my district, to the 
State of Georgia, and to the Nation.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my fellow House Members on behalf of the people of 
Talbot County and Georgia's 11th Congressional District, the district 
that I am so privileged to represent in west Georgia, to join me 
tonight in wishing Mrs. Mae Bell Carter a happy and a blessed 102nd 
birthday.

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