[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 9, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1374]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IN RECOGNITION OF GERALD AND MARY SYKES

                                 ______
                                 

                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, September 9, 2014

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the House's attention 
today to recognize Mr. and Mrs. Gerald and Mary Sykes who have been 
married 59 years and serve as clergy in Lee County, Alabama.
  Gerald and Mary Sykes met in Lanett, Alabama, while attending a 
birthday party in August of 1952. They dated for three years and 
married June 3, 1955.
  Gerald entered the ministry in 1968 in Atlanta, Georgia and has 
served five churches as the full-time pastor. He retired in 2012 and 
served three churches as interim pastor and is currently serving as 
full-time pastor at Waverly Baptist Church in Waverly, Alabama.
  The Sykes raised two daughters and have two grandsons and four great-
grandchildren.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in thanking Gerald and Mary Sykes for 
their tireless service in the Lee County community.

                          ____________________