[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4281]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO MRS. VERDELL G. STONE

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                         HON. JAMES E. CLYBURN

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 10, 2002

  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mrs. Verdell 
G. Stone of Ridgeway, South Carolina. A woman dedicated to her faith 
and to her community, Mrs. Stone has served as a lifelong role model 
for others and has always been a woman of strength, integrity, and 
dignity.
  Mrs. Stone has been a leader and matriarch for her family of eleven 
children, fifteen grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren, as well 
as numerous other children in her church family and community. She has 
taken the responsibility of teaching them and bestowing upon them her 
Christian values by being an example. Mrs. Stone has served faithfully 
as a member of Antioch Baptist Church for more than fifty years, where 
she has held numerous positions of leadership, such as President of the 
Missionary Society, the Senior Choir, and Jubilee Choir. She is a 
former President of the Usher Board, and currently holds the title of 
Mother of the Church.
  Because she has always served her family, her church, and her 
community with distinction and honor, the Ridgeway Community and the 
citizens of Fairfield County have deemed it appropriate to recognize 
Mrs. Stone for her many years of dedicated service. Mrs. Stone will be 
honored with a Verdell G. Stone Appreciation Day, this coming Saturday, 
April 13, 2002.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that you and my colleagues join me in honoring 
Mrs. Verdell G. Stone, a woman whose contributions to her family, 
church and community are outweighed only by the immeasurable gratitude 
of those whose lives she has touched. We all appreciate Mrs. Stone for 
her many years of community and Christian service and extend to her our 
best wishes, and Godspeed.

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