[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 64 (Wednesday, May 11, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 A TRIBUTE TO BETTY JEAN VERETT PEPPER

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                         HON. RANDY NEUGEBAUER

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 11, 2011

  Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. Speaker, Betty Jean Verett Pepper was born on 
April 28, 1931, in Crosby County, Texas, to Charley and Maggie 
(Fenoglio) Verett. She was the youngest of the family's nine children 
who were raised working on the family farm. Betty Jean graduated from 
Ralls High School and went on to graduate from Texas Technological 
College in Lubbock, Texas, in 1952.
  At Texas Tech she met Herbert Leslie Pepper and they married in 1953. 
Leslie and Jean moved to the San Antonio area where their three sons 
were born and raised, also working on the family farm and in 
agriculture-related businesses.
  Now back in Lubbock and known as Mama Jean to her own family and the 
expanded Verett families, she not only remembers the birthdays, 
anniversaries and other special occasions of this group, but personally 
calls each one on those special days.
  That is why we want to take this opportunity to remember her 80th 
birthday on April 28, 2011, and to wish her many more joyous 
celebrations with her sons, six grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.

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