[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 87 (Tuesday, June 2, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE PASSING OF BARBARA LUMPKINS

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                         HON. JOHN P. SARBANES

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 2, 2015

  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. Speaker, Barbara Lumpkins, a longtime champion for 
children with disabilities who spent many years as an activist for 
adoption for special needs children, passed away on May 24, 2015. In 
keeping with that deep commitment, she and her husband adopted four 
children into their family along with their two birth children. She was 
an active, consistent, positive, caring adult presence for children in 
the Irvington community since she and her family moved there in 1970. 
Her smile and her large heart will be greatly missed, but her presence 
will continue to be felt in the many people she supported and inspired 
over the years. Please join me in expressing sympathies and thanks to 
her family for this remarkable life.

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