[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 21, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S7263]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              REMEMBERING 
                          DOUG M. ANDRUS, JR.

 Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, today I honor the life of a very 
good friend and neighbor, Doug M. Andrus Jr. I join with his family in 
mourning his passing. He had the love and faith of the entire community 
and will be greatly missed. He was faithful, reliable and committed to 
his family, his church and his community. He set a tremendous example 
in everything that he did, and I am honored to have counted him among 
my friends.
  Doug was a successful Idaho Falls businessman--a loving son, brother, 
husband, father, and grandfather. He was born on April 29, 1941, the 
second of six children, and grew up in Idaho Falls. Doug served a 
mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and 
attended Ricks College and Brigham Young University, where he graduated 
with honors. He was married to his wife Deanna for 47 years; together, 
they had 13 children and 56 grandchildren. Doug and his brother, Heber, 
coowned a family business, Doug Andrus Distributing, started by his 
parents in 1937. Through hard work and ingenuity, Doug and Heber grew 
the trucking company expanding business throughout the United States 
and western Canada, established Dad's Travel Center truck stops and 
have the Andco Leasing real estate development company. Doug has been 
recognized for his principled business practices, receiving the Granite 
Pillar Award in 2009 for business ethics.
  Doug was also widely respected for his active involvement in the 
community and church. He was a great humanitarian whose giving included 
contributions to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort and local food 
banks, and he dedicated substantial time and resources to the Boy 
Scouts of America, through which he earned the one of the highest 
recognitions given--Silver Beaver Award. Doug was also a devoted 
missionary and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day 
Saints. He served in many central roles in the church, including elders 
quorum presidency, stake president, mission president in the Nevada Las 
Vegas West mission and sealer in the Idaho Falls Temple. We worked 
closely together when he served with me in the stake presidency of the 
Eagle Rock Stake.
  Through all that he did, Doug was a good, humble, gregarious, 
gracious, faithful, committed, reliable man of integrity. He was very 
kind and giving and served as a great model of how best to carry 
oneself and treat others. His family and friends loved and trusted him 
immensely, and he provided sound counsel to many throughout the 
community. I will deeply miss my good friend, Doug Andrus.

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