[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 3, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H2748]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              LOWELL STOUT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the order of the House of 
January 4, 2005, the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce) is 
recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute Lowell Stout, a good 
friend who recently passed away in Hobbs, New Mexico.
  Lowell was an attorney there. He moved to the area from Oklahoma 
after the Dust Bowl days in the 1930s. He always called himself a proud 
son of a sharecropper from Blaine Bottom, Oklahoma.
  Lowell worked his way through school as a roughneck on drilling rigs. 
He also worked as an oil field roustabout. During the Korean War, he 
served in the Army. After his time in the service, he returned to Hobbs 
to practice law defending a variety of civil litigation matters. Later 
he began to specialize, representing the small guy in personal injury, 
plaintiff-related matters.
  Lowell became a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 
1981. He was selected to be included among the ``Best Lawyers in 
America.'' He was an early inductee into the Joe Roehl Circle of Honor 
which honors the finest trial lawyers in New Mexico.
  I never asked Lowell if he was a Democrat or Republican. I suspect he 
was a Democrat. We never talked much about politics because we shared a 
common belief that the family was paramount. Lowell was the parent of 
Mark and Georgiann. Georgiann and I went to school together and 
graduated. She went on to San Francisco and lives there today. Son Mark 
stays in Hobbs. He and his wife Cindy have raised their family there.
  The abiding memory of Mr. Stout is that he was always with his wife 
Liliane. They raised their family in Hobbs. He was a dedicated family 
man. In these days of partisan politics, I know that many times Mr. 
Stout disagreed with my opinions, but he frankly encouraged me to do 
the best that I could. He did the best that he could. I think that we 
ought to learn by his example: dedication and commitment to family, 
dedication and commitment to a wife.
  Again, I salute Lowell Stout, a great lawyer, a fine human being, a 
friend and the father of friends of mine and the husband of a friend of 
mine.

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