[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 42 (Thursday, March 13, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E381-E382]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRIBUTE TO MRS. LUCILLE ROBINSON FAULKNER

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                          HON. DANNY K. DAVIS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 13, 2014

  Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Lucille Robinson 
Faulkner was born in August of 1930 in Portland, Arkansas in the 
Mississippi Delta, eight miles from Parkdale, Arkansas where I was born 
and lived until I was nineteen years old. Mrs. Faulkner moved with her 
grandmother and family to Chicago where she attended Waller High School 
and graduated in 1948, which made her one of the more educated Black 
persons in her community at that time.
  Mrs. Faulkner married her husband Mr. Derrell Faulkner in 1949, and 
to this union, thirteen children were born. Mrs. Faulkner worked as a 
seamstress, took care of her children and eventually was hired by 
Samuel

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Adams Sr., an outstanding, colorful and very successful attorney who is 
known far and wide. This was a position which she held until she 
retired. Mrs. Faulkner was a great cook and actively involved with 
church and the community in which she lived.
  I am indeed proud of the fact that I was able to know and represent 
individuals and groups of people like the Faulkner family whose 
heritage is so closely aligned with mine that I feel a great sense of 
personal kinship.
  Bless you Mrs. Lucille Faulkner and may your soul rest in peace.

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