[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 25, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1067-E1068]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            PAYING TRIBUTE TO DWIGHT ALBERT ``D.A.'' SHARPE

                            HON. KAY GRANGER

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 25, 2018

  Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay special tribute to a 
dear friend, a fine Texan and a great American, Dwight Albert Sharpe. 
Known as ``D.A.'' Sharpe to his friends, he graduated to heaven on July 
12, 2018.
  D.A. was one of my first and most ardent supporters and his inspiring 
and encouraging messages encouraged me and others on a regular basis.
  My friend D.A. was born June 24, 1939, in Ballinger, Texas. He was a 
graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas and held a bachelor of 
business administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin. 
D.A. married his wife, Suzanne Margaret Boggess, in New Orleans, 
Louisiana in 1962, where their three children were later born. The 
family resided in St. Louis County, Missouri between 1972 to 1982 in 
Dallas between 1982 to 1999, and for the last 19 years, in Aurora, Wise 
County.
  D.A. served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Wise County 
from 2000 and 2008. Even in retirement, D.A. remained active as a 
national and state GOP delegate. In

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addition to his political service, D.A.'s professional pursuits were in 
the fields of technology, as well as in administrative management for 
non-profit Christian entities. In 2004, he retired as the Executive 
Administrator for the Senior Pastor at Highland Park Presbyterian 
Church .
  D.A. studied genealogy extensively, tracing his ancestry back more 
than 1,300 years. He also found genealogical relationships to 20 of the 
45 U.S. Presidents. Above all else, D.A. was privileged to call himself 
a fifth-generation Texan. His great, great grandfather, Judge Felix 
Benedict Dixon, immigrated from Ohio to Texas in 1841, when it was 
still the Republic of Texas. D.A.'s lineage also has roots going back 
in America as a sixth-generation United States citizen, being a 
descendant of American Revolutionary soldier, Lt. George P. Sharp, of 
New York.
  D.A. is survived by his wife, Suzanne Margaret Boggess Sharpe and 
their three children: Taylor Marcus Sharpe; Tiffany Lenn Sharpe 
Westmoreland and her husband, Steven O. Westmoreland; and Todd Wittman 
Sharpe, and his wife, Carrie Ann Maxwell Sharpe. There are seven 
grandchildren: Katherine Michelle, John David (Jack), Lily Taylor, 
Sarah Todd and Samuel Lee (Sam) Westmoreland; and Luke Maxwell and 
Brooke Eden Sharpe.
  Though D.A. is no longer with us, his memory will not be forgotten by 
those of us who were privileged enough to know him. I ask Members to 
please pray for my dear friend D.A. Sharpe and his family during this 
difficult time.

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