[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 24, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E47-E48]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   RECOGNIZING MRS. ANN WINDLEY FOR HER SERVICE TO OUR NATION AND TO 
                         BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C.

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                         HON. GREGORY F. MURPHY

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 24, 2023

  Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mrs. Ann Windley, who 
has served our great Nation and the County of Beaufort, N.C. Mrs. 
Windley started her decades of service as a Naval officer, joining the 
U.S. Navy Nurse Corps at 21 years of age in May of 1945 and serving 
until April 1946. She was stationed at U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, 
Virginia with the assignment to rehabilitate those service members who 
were wounded in action during

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World War II and needed medical care before they could be released from 
active duty.
  This is where she met her husband, Daniel Morgan Windley, III, a 
Marine who participated in the battle of Okinawa. They fell in love 
almost immediately and were married March 9, 1946, 3 months after they 
met, for 60 years.
  They quickly settled down in Aurora, N.C. where her husband built the 
home Mrs. Windley lives in today. They had 5 children, Mary Lou, 
Daniel, William, John W., And Margaret. Three of their children also 
served in the military (Army, Air Force, and the Coast Guard) and her 
brother served in the Marines.
  It is here, in beautiful Beaufort County, where Mrs. Windley began 
her decades of public service to Beaufort County. She served as a 
school nurse and then a county nurse, ultimately retiring from the 
Beaufort County school system after 2 decades of service.
  Because of Mrs. Windley's outstanding dedication and great work 
ethic, she was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the 
American Red Cross. This prestigious award requires a minimum of 4,000 
hours of documented volunteer service.
  I am very grateful for her enduring public service to eastern North 
Carolina and for the incredible example she has set for all of us to 
follow in life. It is my honor to recognize her in the hallowed United 
States House of Representatives. God bless Mrs. Windley, and I thank 
her from the bottom of my heart for her decades of ceaseless service.

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