[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 8 (Friday, January 16, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E75-E76]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF LEMON HENRY MOSES, JR.

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                          HON. STENY H. HOYER

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 16, 2015

  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Lemon Henry Moses, 
Jr., a distinguished community leader in Maryland's Fifth District who 
passed away on December 10, 2014. He was 94 years old.
  Lemon Moses made history as the first African-American to serve as 
Chairman of the Charles County Liquor Board. All of us who knew Lemon 
saw how deeply devoted he was to his family, his community, and his 
country. He gave so much of himself to all three, and he will be fondly 
remembered by the many whose lives he touched across Charles County and 
Maryland.
  After growing up in Savannah, Georgia, Lemon moved to Pittsburgh in 
his youth and was a singer and tap dancer in a local Vaudeville troupe 
called the `Kandy Kids,' where he befriended Gene Kelly before he 
became famous. Attending Howard University in Washington, DC, Lemon 
studied mechanical engineering, and when World War II broke out, he 
joined the U.S. Navy and served his country as a sailor in the Pacific 
Theater of Operations. When the war ended, he began a career with the 
U.S. Postal Service that lasted forty-four years, where he served in a 
number of leadership positions.
  Lemon became involved in the Civil Rights Movement in 1947, when he 
worked to integrate his local school district while serving as 
president of a parent-teacher association. In the Postal Service, he 
held the role of Eastern Region Vice President for the Postal Service 
Supervisors and made equal rights a focus of his work there. President 
Lyndon Johnson later appointed Lemon as an Equal Employment Opportunity 
Specialist to handle discrimination complaints in Congress. In 1974, he 
moved to Waldorf, in Charles County, where he became very active in the 
County's chapter of the NAACP. In addition to a trailblazing service on 
the Charles County Liquor Board, Lemon also spent five years on the 
board of directors for what is now the University of Maryland Charles 
Regional Medical Center and was active in Chapter 3885 of the AARP.
  Lemon was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-
grandfather. He is survived by his wife of seventy-three years, Elaine 
Moses, as well as his daughter Yvonne Beatrice Buford and her husband 
Walter; and his son Mike Moses and his wife Delores. In addition to 
them, four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, Lemon is 
survived by a community to which he had devoted so much of his time and 
energy both before and during his retirement. He was an active member 
of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Waldorf, where family and friends 
bade farewell in a moving funeral mass on December 18, 2014.
  I join in expressing my condolences to Elaine and to the entire Moses 
family, and I

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thank them for sharing Lemon with all of us for the many years in which 
he did so much good for the people and communities of Charles County 
and for our country. As I remarked at his funeral, Lemon Moses was no 
lemon--he was a peach, a pear, and an apple, and all of our lives were 
made sweeter because of his.

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