[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 72 (Friday, April 28, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H2104-H2105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  REMEMBERING PATRICIA SUTHERLIN McREE

  (Mr. MILLS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MILLS. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to recognize and remember 
Patricia Sutherlin McRee.
  Patricia Sutherlin McRee, a 30-year resident of Oviedo, and a 
constituent of mine, passed from us earlier this week.
  Patricia moved to the Space Coast in 1960 to teach at Melbourne High 
School, where she met a young Army officer who had been mobilized and 
sent to Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  Patricia took her charm and commitment to service with her all over 
this Nation and overseas as an Army spouse. She organized support for 
families whose husbands were serving in Vietnam alongside her beloved 
Army husband, Marshall McRee.
  She mobilized love and comfort for new widows and fatherless children 
traumatized by the sudden loss of a serviceman killed in action. At 
every military base that the Army sent Patricia and Marshall to, she 
was a leader, a servant, and an essential part of the fabric of that 
community.
  In my district of Oviedo, Patricia served as leader of the Oviedo 
Women's Club and, for many years, organized the Great Day in the 
Country Festival to fundraise for that organization.
  She made every duty station a better place through her service, and 
she made central Florida a better place.
  My heartfelt condolences to her son-in-law, Congressman Brandon 
Williams, and his wife in this loss.
  May God bless her. Rest in peace.

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