[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 140 (Tuesday, August 29, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1149]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                  CONGRATULATING MS. AUDREY MAY WILSON

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                       HON. BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, August 29, 2017

  Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate Ms. Audrey 
May Wilson nee Butler on her upcoming 80th birthday on September 3, 
2017.
  Audrey was born in Clarendon, Jamaica on September 3, 1937. 
Passionate by wanting to help others, Audrey moved to England to study 
nursing where she graduated from the Dreadnought Seamen's School of 
Nursing in London. While in London, she was introduced to her husband 
Raymond Wilson by her lifelong best friend and Raymond's aunt, Joyce 
Grant. The two fell in love and got married on December 5, 1972.
  Throughout her five esteemed decades of nursing, Audrey worked in 
various hospitals in England and Jamaica before coming to the States. 
Shortly after arriving, Audrey became the Head Nurse at the United 
Hospital Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. After several years in 
Newark, she moved to Connecticut to work at John Dempsey Medical Center 
for over a decade before returning back to New Jersey. Finally, in 2012 
Audrey retired from the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Employee Health 
Division, capping off her tremendous career of service.
  Audrey and her husband resided in Pennington, New Jersey, where they 
have lived for the past 18 years. For the past two decades, they both 
have been active members of the Princeton Alliance Church. Audrey has 
one daughter, Audra, and her step son Magne. She is a proud grandmother 
to Ava and her two-step grandchildren, Troy and Mykai.
  Mr. Speaker, I sincerely hope that my colleagues will join me in 
congratulating Audrey on her birthday and to thank her for her amazing 
career to helping others.

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