[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 108 (Tuesday, July 19, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1355]
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                        RECOGNIZING EUNICE LEWIS

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                            HON. BILLY LONG

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 19, 2011

  Mr. LONG. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize a great citizen of 
the State of Missouri. I offer the highest commendation to Eunice Lewis 
of Granby, Missouri, who has the distinction of being the oldest living 
member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). Born in Lincoln, Arkansas and 
raised in Morris, Oklahoma, Ms. Lewis married Mr. George McFarland of 
the United States Marine Corps during World War II. At the age of 
twenty-eight, with her husband serving in the Pacific Theatre of 
Operations--where he was captured and held prisoner by Japanese forces 
for five years--Eunice joined the Women's Army Corps and completed her 
training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Eunice was then stationed at Fort 
Hood, Texas, where her primary responsibility was writing the Last Will 
and Testaments for the soldiers. After her husband returned safely from 
overseas, they were anxious to begin their new life together. They 
found a home in Granby, a home which still stands to this day. Eunice 
and George McFarland had one son, Pat McFarland, who was all too young 
when his father passed away. Eunice then married Leon Lewis, who worked 
for Rocketdyne and Teledyne in Neosho, Missouri, and the couple enjoyed 
many years of wedded bliss prior to his passing twelve years ago. 
Eunice Lewis celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday on July 7, 2011. I 
salute the life accomplishments of Eunice Lewis, a proud daughter of 
the State of Missouri and the United States.

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