[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1427]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING LORRAINE FERN PIPKIN

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                          HON. TOM McCLINTOCK

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 27, 2010

  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, I rise today in memory of Lorraine 
Fern Pipkin of Manhattan Beach, CA.
  Lorraine was born August 10, 1925 in North Dakota. She was raised on 
her grandparents' farm, working to help support her family during the 
Great Depression. At the age of 14 she moved with her mother to Yakima, 
Washington, and in the 1940s Lorraine moved to Los Angeles, where she 
went to work to fill the vital jobs vacated by GIs fighting in World 
War II. Lorraine loved being a mother and cherished time with her 
family and raising her two sons and daughters in Hawthorne. She was 
known for her wonderful cooking and open-house policy of hosting 
friends and family on a regular basis.
  Madam Speaker, Winston Churchill once said, ``There is no doubt that 
it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the 
most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and 
maintained.'' Lorraine spent her life raising a family, whom I have had 
the privilege to know for many years, who reflect the finest virtues of 
our nation, and I share in mourning their loss.

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