[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 108 (Wednesday, July 6, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1037-E1038]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IN HONOR OF REVEREND HORACE CLINTON BOYD

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 6, 2016

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart and 
solemn remembrance that I rise today to pay tribute to outstanding 
spiritual leader and man of God, a brave man, and dear friend, the 
Reverend Horace Clinton Boyd. Sadly, Reverend Boyd passed away on 
Saturday, June 25, 2016. A home-going celebration was held in his honor 
on July 2, 2016 at 10 a.m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany, 
Georgia followed by a brief memorial at Macedonia Baptist Church in 
Ludowici, Georgia.
  A Georgia man through and through, Reverend Boyd was born on November 
28, 1926 in Long County, Georgia and was the fifth of ten children to 
the late Deacon Earnest Franklin and Mrs. Eula Wright Franklin. He 
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at the public schools in Long County, Georgia before attending college 
and seminary training at Morehouse College of Atlanta, GA. Reverend 
Boyd also served his country courageously as a World War II veteran 
before he was honorably discharged.
  Reverend Boyd began preaching on October 13, 1946 at Engineer 
Chapel--Schofield Barracks on the Island of Ohau, Hawaii. He has 
pastored at many churches in Georgia, including the Shiloh Missionary 
Baptist Church, the birthplace of the 1960s Albany Civil Rights 
Movement. Despite threats to his person, his family, his home and his 
church, he allowed a mass meeting to be held at Shiloh that organized 
local Civil Rights marches. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed the 
overflowing crowds from the pulpit of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church 
and now a trail of footprints originating in the front of the church 
leading to the Albany Bus Station commemorates the Albany Civil Rights 
marches.
  Dr. George Washington Carver once said, ``No individual has any right 
to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind distinct 
and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.'' We are so 
blessed that the Reverend Horace Boyd passed this way and shared with 
us his legacy of service that will stand the test of time. Surely, the 
wealth of wisdom that Reverend Boyd has given to his listeners will 
forever resonate in their hearts and spirits.
  Reverend Boyd has been repeatedly acknowledged for his outstanding 
achievements, service and public distinction. He served as Dean of the 
Albany Seminary Extension Center for 25 years, Commissioned Board 
Member of the Dougherty County Family and Children Services for 27 
years and as a past Moderator of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist 
Association from 1961-1994. He has achieved numerous successes in his 
life, but none of this would have been possible without the grace of 
God and his loving wife of sixty years, Ms. Barbara Mae Riles Boyd, who 
was called Home to be with her Savior in 2010. They have two children, 
William and Dolores.
  Mr. Speaker, my wife Vivian and I, along with the more than 730,000 
people in the Second Congressional District of Georgia, would like to 
extend our deepest sympathies to Rev. Boyd's family, friends, and 
followers during this difficult time. May we all be consoled and 
comforted by an abiding faith and the Holy Spirit in the days, weeks 
and months ahead.

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