[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 174 (Friday, October 26, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1452]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





            CELEBRATING THE MILITARY SERVICE OF BILL ANTONE

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                            HON. BRIAN BABIN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 26, 2018

  Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank a great man for his 
military service, William D. ``Bill'' Antone. Mr. Antone is a one 
hundred year old World War II veteran of the United States Army.
  Bill Antone was born on August 23, 1918, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 
two and a half months before the end of World War I. Bill is the last 
remaining of his four siblings. Bill moved to Houston in 1929 where he 
attended Harris Elementary on Broadway at Manchester, Deedee Junior 
High School, and Sam Houston High School. During the depression in 
1932, the family moved to Bryan, Texas where Bill graduated in May, 
1935. Bill married Ammye Boggs on April 29, 1939. On October 29, 1937, 
Bill applied and was hired by Shell Refinery in Deer Park.
  In April 1944 Mr. Antone was drafted into the United States Army and 
served in the Infantry. He was stationed at Fort Sam Houston and Camp 
Fannin in Tyler, Texas and was assigned as company clerk of Company A 
59, 12th Regiment. Eventually, the Army sent Bill to Washington and Lee 
University in Lexington, Virginia. After returning to Camp Fannin, the 
war ended and Camp Fannin was shut down. Bill was transferred to Fort 
Bliss in El Paso, Texas where he was discharged from the Army in May 
1946.
  Following his discharge from the Army in May 1946, Mr. Antone 
returned to Shell Deer Park where he worked for over thirty-eight 
years. Bill and Ammye are parents to three children, five 
grandchildren, and many great grandchildren. Ammye went to be with the 
Lord on September 10, 2004. Bill was later blessed with eleven years of 
marriage to Jocelyn M. Williams-Antone who passed in 2017.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Antone for his selfless military service to 
this great nation.

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