[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 23 (Friday, February 4, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H950-H951]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF CEOLE SPEIGHT

  (Ms. GARCIA of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GARCIA of Texas. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 
life of Ceole Speight.
  Elta Ceole Branam Speight was born on June 8, 1928, and was reunited 
in Heaven with her husband of 63 years, Joseph, on January 24, 2022.
  As a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 455, 
Ceole was appointed as the volunteer and programs director at the 
Harris County

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AFL-CIO in 1968. She would go on to give 40 years of dedicated service 
to the labor movement in Houston and in Texas.
  She will be remembered by many as a strong, Democratic woman who 
fought for what she believed in, who always saw what was wrong and 
tried to make it right. I will remember her as a hard worker, whose 
hard work was really infectious. You simply could not sit by when Ceole 
was around. She guided, she pushed, she advised, she poked, she served 
as a role model for all of us.
  Our thoughts are with Ceole's family and the countless friends and 
allies whose lives she touched with her time and her generosity on this 
Earth.
  Rest easy, dear friend, you will be missed.

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