[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 25, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1326]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING MAYOR BETTY ANN MATTHIES

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                           HON. HENRY CUELLAR

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 25, 2012

  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the retiring 
Mayor of the City of Seguin in Texas, Betty Ann Matthies. She was 
elected Mayor of the City of Seguin in 2004 and is ending her tenure in 
2012. Her tireless efforts have improved the community and served to 
better the development and progress for the City of Seguin.
  Mayor Matthies was born in Guadalupe County, Texas on September 23, 
1934. She graduated from Seguin High School in 1953 and pursued her 
higher education degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Mayor 
Matthies graduated from Seton School of Nursing in Austin, Texas three 
years after graduating high school. As a registered nurse she was 
employed at the Nix Hospital for five years as an Operating Room 
Registered Nurse. By 1961, she moved to Seguin where she worked at the 
Guadalupe Valley Hospital until 2004--serving the patients and health 
care community for 41 years. As Director of Nursing, she was promoted 
to Associate Administrator by 1978, the same year she received her 
certificate in Health Care Administration from Trinity University in 
San Antonio.
  By 2000, Matthies was elected to the Seguin City Council and re-
elected for a four year term in 2002. After resigning from her council 
position she was elected as Mayor in 2004 and is currently on her 
second term in office, which expires in November 2012. I had the 
pleasure of working with the Mayor on various projects, such as 
securing over $850,000 in federal funding on landscape improvements 
throughout Seguin on Interstate Highway 10, US 90 and SH 123. The 
transportation improvement project started in 2009 and is nearly 
complete.
  Along with helping the city in her work as Mayor, she was active in 
the community as serving on the Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce, 
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and American Legion Auxiliary. She was 
also a member of the First United Methodist Church and Seguin 
Shakespeare Club. Mayor Matthies was married to her late husband C.H. 
Matthies Jr. in 1957 until his passing in 2000. C. Henry Matthies III, 
Elizabeth Kelly and Wesley Matthies are their children.
  Mr. Speaker, I am honored to recognize Ms. Betty Ann Matthies, 
retiring Mayor of the City of Seguin. Her years of dedication and 
commitment to our community have truly impacted the quality of lives 
for the people of the city.

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