[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 161 (Friday, October 7, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1033-E1034]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING CLAUDIA MAE TAYLOR DONALSON

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                         HON. SCOTT DesJARLAIS

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 7, 2022

  Mr. DesJARLAIS. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of 
Claudia Mae Taylor Donalson. Claudia is the most recent honoree of the 
Women of Lincoln County Committee--a group that has joined together to 
recognize and honor influential women that have played such a 
significant role in the County's history.
  Claudia was a lifelong Lincoln County resident born April 13, 1916. 
She was the only child to her proud parents Jessie and Mary Lacy 
Taylor. She was educated in Fayetteville public schools where she would 
later return as a teacher. Donalson attended Tennessee State University 
in Nashville for her undergraduate degree and Alabama A&M University in 
Huntsville for her graduate studies.
  She was married in 1944 to a prominent Lincoln County community 
member, Dr. Latha Mitchell Donalson, known as L.M., who was a surgeon 
and hospital administrator. After Claudia retired from teaching, she 
worked as a dietician for her husband who founded Donalson Hospital now 
known as Donalson Nursing Home.
  One of the greatest joys of her life was being an educator. She spent 
thirty years working to better the lives of children as a teacher in 
both the Fayetteville and Lincoln County school systems.
  Claudia was a woman of great faith. She was baptized as a child and 
became a lifetime member of the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Fayetteville. 
She served her church in many capacities as Trustee, Vice President of 
the Women's Missionary Society, the Layman's Organization, and the 
Kitchen Committee.
  A woman with a true servant's heart, she was incredibly active in 
making her community a better place. She was a member of the Tennessee 
Retired Teachers Association, the NAACP, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., 
the Advisory Board of First National Bank-Pulaski, the Fayetteville and 
Lincoln County Child Development Center, Lincoln Medical Center 
Auxiliary, Lincoln County Historical Society, Hannah's House, and the 
R.F. Boyd Auxiliary at Meharry Medical Hospital. She was also a 
Volunteer Hostess for the Fayetteville/Lincoln County Museum and Civic 
Center.
  In her free time, she enjoyed traveling with her husband abroad, 
gardening, reading, refinishing furniture and mastering her needlework 
skills. She passed away on October 2, 2007.
  I hope that the Congress will join me in recognizing the life of Mrs. 
Donalson, and I congratulate the efforts of the Women of Lincoln County 
Committee for their work in recognizing and adding to the historical 
records of the women who have helped shaped the history of their 
county.

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