[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 13, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                TRIBUTE TO LILLIAN ELIZABETH DUNCAN KECK

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                        HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR.

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 13, 2018

  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, one of the kindest, sweetest 
women I have ever known passed away in Farragut, TN on February 5.
  My Aunt Lib, Lillian Elizabeth Duncan Keck, was 96. She led a long, 
full, active life and touched thousands in good and positive ways.
  She was born in Huntsville, TN to Flem B. and Cassie Duncan, the 
seventh of ten children who were raised to adulthood. Two others, twin 
sisters, died shortly after birth.
  Aunt Lib moved to Knoxville after graduating from Huntsville High 
School in 1940. She graduated from National Business College and worked 
for C.M. McClurg Co. in Knoxville Tennessee, Eastman in Oak Ridge, and 
U.S.O. Headquarters in the Empire State Building in New York City.
  After World War II, she taught special needs children in Knox County 
and retired as a speech and hearing technician in the Childrens' 
Special Services Division.
  Her most important role was as a loving wife for 60 years to my late 
Uncle Kenneth Keck who worked for 42 years for the phone company, and 
as mother to four children, Sandra, Kenny, Ricky, and Susan. She also 
had seven grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and one great, 
great grandchild.
  I remember Aunt Lib best as one of the hardest campaigners my father 
ever had in his three races for Mayor of Knoxville and especially in 
his first (and closest) race for Congress in 1964.
  My Dad and Aunt Lib were the sixth and seventh of the ten children my 
grandparents raised, so they were especially close in age and in many 
other ways.
  They both enjoyed telling the story of the time the basketball 
manager at Huntsville high school forgot my dad's uniform on a visit to 
another school, so my father had to play wearing Aunt Lib's uniform.
  Aunt Lib was a lifelong Presbyterian and lived by the Golden Rule. 
She was kind to everyone.
  This Nation is a better place today because of the life she led and 
the examples she set for everyone who knew her.

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