[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 24, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E961]
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                    TRIBUTE TO DR. FRANK LYON ROMMEL

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                         HON. MICHAEL F. DOYLE

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 24, 2006

  Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of a Western 
Pennsylvania native and pioneer in the field of Physical Medicine, Dr. 
Frank Lyon Rommel, who passed away on I April 28, 2006, at the Moravian 
Manor in Lititz, PA.
  Dr. Rommel, a Board Certified specialist in Physical Medicine was the 
founder of the Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Department at the 
McKeesport Hospital, and is credited with rehabilitating hundreds of 
injured veterans at the V.A. Harmarville Rehabilitation Center in 
suburban Pittsburgh as well as countless patients in hospitals 
throughout Western Pennsylvania between 1961 and 1988.
  He was born in Glassport, PA on May 5, 1925, was a graduate of 
Glassport High School, St. Vincent College and the Stritch School of 
Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago. He served overseas during World 
'War II as a cryptographer in the Army Air Corps.
  Dr. Rommel was married for 51 years to Barbara Bonde Rommel who 
survives him along with five children, their spouses, 10 grandchildren, 
two sisters, and is the uncle of our colleague, Congressman Bill 
Shuster. Internment will be at the Shuster Family Cemetery near 
Everett, PA.

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