[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 26521-26522]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               TRIBUTE TO MRS. LENA ROBERTA MURRELL WHITE

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                         HON. ROBERT E. ANDREWS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, December 7, 2000

  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute the cherished American 
tradition of motherhood. That tradition is exemplified in an 
extraordinary mother by the name of Mrs. Lena

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Roberta Murrell White. Daughter, Sister, Wife, Mother and Friend. Mrs. 
Lena White has been and is all of these and more. She was daughter Lena 
growing up in the farming country of North Carolina. Younger sister in 
a large brood she was a shining light in that big family. She was wife 
to James E. Murrell and bore him nine children, raising them all in 
love and happiness while working harder than any three people. After 
his passing she was wife to James White and took his children as her 
own, loving and protecting them. And everywhere she has gone there are 
a host of friends eager for her return. From the streets, hedges and 
rows of Greenville, North Carolina through the well kept manicured 
lawns of Wilmington, Delaware to the hustle and bustle of Camden, New 
Jersey, her friends are legion. Now in her eightieth year she can reach 
out to a large family of adoring children, grandchildren and great 
grandchildren. She continues as an example to us all of living a life 
in harmony with God. We love her and always shall, and today we honor 
her in this place through this body for length of days.

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