[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14143-14144]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING ROLLAND B. ``BOB'' LYONS

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, on June 17 a friend to our community, Mr. 
Rolland B. ``Bob'' Lyons passed away following a courageous fight with 
cancer in which his courage never faltered

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or failed. Enduring and self-effacing, this entrepreneurial genius and 
civic leader, who used to like to call himself ``just a ditch digger 
from Ann Arbor,'' was a truly unique character.
  He had a massive toy collection. He created a reproduction of a 19th 
century hardware store in his office. And most of all, he liked to wear 
some of the most outrageous seersucker suits and bow ties that you 
would ever see, at least back home in Michigan.
  Bob was probably one of the people in life that you would meet that 
you could not but befriend. I would like to extend my condolences to 
his family and to all who, in knowing Bob Lyons, could not but love 
him.

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