[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 121 (Thursday, July 21, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6942]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        COMMEMORATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF MARY FRANCES CRISS

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the life and 
legacy of my good friend and community organizer, Mary Criss, of Fort 
Worth. Mary Criss was a mother, a wife, very organized in the 
community, and was blessed to have lived a wonderful life.
  She was so into I.M. Terrell; loved the I.M. Terrell Association and 
being an alumnus and someone that was revered within that high school 
alumni association.
  In addition to that, she also worked to organize her community and 
helped them get streetlights and stop signs put up in her Eastwood 
community and Stop Six; and was a longtime precinct chair and supporter 
of so many.
  But more importantly than that, Mary Criss loved God and was a devout 
member of Beth Eden Baptist Church. Mary was married for over five 
decades to her husband, Carl, and raised her son, granddaughters, and 
loved watching her grandson after school.
  She was a family woman and just loved her family intensely. She will 
be missed, not only by her family, but everyone in the community, the 
I.M. Terrell Alumni Association community, and everyone that knew Mary 
Criss.

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