[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 133 (Wednesday, September 16, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         TRIBUTE TO MAXINE LYON

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 16, 2015

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Maxine Lyon on her retirement as the organist at the First 
United Presbyterian Church in Atlantic, Iowa. Maxine recently retired 
after serving over 66 years as the church organist.
  Maxine directed the children's choir, adult choir and bell choir for 
many years. She is well known in the Atlantic area for performing with 
other area musicians and accompanying community choirs. Maxine taught 
piano lessons for 40 years primarily to advanced students. After 
graduating from Parsons College in 1939, she began a distinguished 
career teaching music in several different school districts. Maxine and 
her husband, Walt, moved to Atlantic in 1948 and raised two daughters, 
Pat and Judy.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend and congratulate Maxine for her many years of 
dedicated and devoted service to the First United Presbyterian Church 
and to the Atlantic community. I am proud to represent her in the 
United States Congress. I know that my colleagues in the United States 
House of Representatives join me in congratulating Maxine and wish her 
and her family nothing but the best moving forward.

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