[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 163 (Thursday, October 27, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H7151-H7152]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                ROY ROOD

  (Mr. ROONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

[[Page H7152]]

  Mr. ROONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Roy Rood, 
who passed away on October 8. Roy was a longtime resident and the 
founding father of my hometown of Tequesta, Florida.
  Mr. Rood was born in 1918 on a farm in Jupiter, Florida, one of 11 
children. He spent his early years on the family dairy farm, where he 
learned the value of a hard day's work and love for working outside. 
The first Tequesta post office was located on his family's property and 
was placed on maps of that era as a settlement called ``Rood.''
  Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roy joined the Navy, where he 
served with honor in World War II as an aviation mechanic on an 
aircraft carrier that was part of the fleet that participated in the 
Battle of Guam. Following the war, Roy returned home to Florida, where 
he started a landscaping business that continues today.
  Over the past 60 years, Roy Rood helped found American Legion Post 
271, the local Kiwanis Club, the First Bank of Jupiter, and the Jupiter 
Christian School.
  The residents of Tequesta are lucky to call Roy Rood our founding 
father. He will be missed.

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