[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 203 (Tuesday, November 23, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1270-E1271]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    IN HONOR OF MR. EDDIE L. PEARCE

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                        HON. ROBERT B. ADERHOLT

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 23, 2021

  Mr. ADERHOLT. Madam Speaker, I would like to recognize a lifetime of 
dedication and expertise by Mr. Eddie Pearce of Hamilton, Alabama for 
receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award that recognizes 60 years of 
service as a National Weather Service Cooperative Observer.

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  Mr. Pearce was born in Pecos County, Texas and moved to Alabama when 
he was only 14 years old. From a very young age he had a strong 
interest in the weather and began taking and observing daily temperate 
readings in November of 1961.
  Since then, his passion and dedication has led him to aiding the 
daily operations of meteorologists across the state. His expertise in 
topography has proven essential to understanding and communicating to 
the public the importance of elevation temperature changes on our 
climate in Alabama.
  During his time observing the weather in Hamilton, he saw the many 
ways our weather can reach the extremes. Back in January of 1966, he 
recorded his record low temperature of -19 degrees. This was the same 
day the state of Alabama set its record low temperature of -27 degrees 
recorded at New Market in Madison County. On the other end of the 
meteorological spectrum, Mr. Pearce recorded his record high 
temperature in August of 2007. His recording station hit 109 degrees 
during a record setting heat and drought that impacted all of Alabama.
  The National Weather Service is honored to have an observer such as 
Mr. Pearce on their side and presented him with the Lifetime 
Achievement Award on November 2, 2021. Mr. Pearce was married to 
Rosemary Ritchie Pearce for more than six decades. She passed away in 
2019.
  They had two children, son Eddie Pearce III and daughter Shawn 
Armstrong.
  I want to congratulate Mr. Pearce on this well-deserved achievement 
as he portrays a great example of the genuine, hard-working people who 
make up Alabama's 4th District. I want to wish him all the best and 
thank him for his service to his community, Marion County, and all of 
Alabama.