[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Pages 20437-20438]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         FRANK ``BUD'' DANIELS

 Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, the agricultural community across 
Montana was saddened this month by the passing of Frank Daniels. He was 
known to all of us as ``Bud''.
  He was born and raised on the northern high plains in eastern 
Montana. He gave up to cancer and was 72. His daughter wrote that he 
left us as quietly and gently as he walked across that newly cut 
stubble field to be with His Lord.
  A life long devotion to improving the lives of rural Americans and 
keeping farmers on the land he loved, which he valued so highly, led 
him to countless areas of involvement and gained him the admiration of 
his peers. No man or woman ever gave so much to the Montana Farmers 
Union than did Bud Daniels.
  He participated in the three-year Kellogg Extension Program at 
Montana State University which enabled him to visit far corners of the 
world and taking him to China in 1976. He believed in the fraternity of 
agriculture.
  His interest in farming issues and programs was generated and groomed 
through the Montana Farmers Union. He was president of Montana Farmers 
Union and vice president of National Farmers Union. He also served on 
the Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Companies.

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  During his years of farming and serving, he founded the Rural Policy 
Institute, established a cooperative curriculum at Montana State 
University, and developed strong ties with farm groups in foreign 
countries. He had a passion for travel as it was his education and his 
way to reach out to the rest of the world that was crying for the 
technology and ways to feed a hungry world.
  We in Montana will miss him as he was the inspiration of leadership. 
Did we always agree? No. That was not important but the dialog and 
communications that enabled us to help those in need that farm and 
ranch was important. He would say that we are the providers and there 
is no higher calling on God's Earth.
  Bud is survived by 4 daughters, Amy, Becky, Rachel, and Karen. Also 
by their mother, Laura Daniels of Billings, Montana.

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