[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 90 (Friday, June 25, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H5074]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING ROLLAND B. ``BOB'' LYONS

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, on June 17 a friend to our community, Mr. 
Rolland B. ``Bob'' Lyons passed away following a courageous fight with 
cancer in which his courage never faltered or failed. Enduring and 
self-effacing, this entrepreneurial genius and civic leader, who used 
to like to call himself ``just a ditch digger from Ann Arbor,'' was a 
truly unique character.
  He had a massive toy collection. He created a reproduction of a 19th 
century hardware store in his office. And most of all, he liked to wear 
some of the most outrageous seersucker suits and bow ties that you 
would ever see, at least back home in Michigan.
  Bob was probably one of the people in life that you would meet that 
you could not but befriend. I would like to extend my condolences to 
his family and to all who, in knowing Bob Lyons, could not but love 
him.

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