[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 175 (Wednesday, December 11, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1829]
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                COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF FLORA DAY KING

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                           HON. JACK KINGSTON

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 11, 2013

  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the life of 
Mrs. Flora Day King. Mrs. King passed away on November 29, 2013 in 
Seneca, South Carolina at the age of 97.
  Flora Prussia Day was born on December 27, 1915 in Lexington, 
Virginia, the daughter of the late Philip Baldwin Day and Ernestine 
Albery Day. After graduating as valedictorian of the one-room 
schoolhouse in Lexington, she earned her Bachelor's degree from William 
and Mary College and her Master's degree in chemistry from Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute.
  Following in the footsteps of her grandfather, Admiral Benjamin 
Franklin Day of the United States Navy, Flora enlisted in the Navy in 
1941. She served as a Lieutenant in the Navy developing and testing jet 
propellant for rockets at Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center in 
Maryland for the duration of the Second World War.
  Flora married Dr. Edwin Wallace King in 1950 and moved to Clemson, 
South Carolina in 1956, where she worked as a chemist for the United 
States Department of Agriculture at Clemson University. She was active 
in community service organizations and her local Episcopal church.
  She is survived by her sister, Jane Day Casati, her sister-in-law, 
Jeanne Poe Day, her son Edwin Wallace King Jr., his wife Edythe and 
their two daughters, Edythe Day King and Elizabeth Monroe King, and her 
son Philip Day King, his wife Lori, and their son Philip Robert King.
  Today we honor her service to our country and her commitment to her 
family. She was a kind and loving woman who inspired those around her, 
and she will be truly missed.

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