[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16544]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 RECOGNIZING RUBY FRANCES MYRICK WILSON

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                   HON. CHARLES W. ``CHIP'' PICKERING

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 28, 2006

  Mr. PICKERING. Mr. Speaker, today I want to recognize a Mississippian 
who has given a century of service to her family, friends and 
community. She has been a wife of sixty-six years, a mother of seven 
children, and wonderful Christian woman. Next month, she turns one-
hundred years old, but the light in her eyes and the good works of her 
hands continue to love and bless her neighbors.
  Ruby Frances Myrick Wilson was born August 30, 1906 to James Wilson 
Myrick and Myrtle Rebecah Alderman Myrick. She studied at Otoe 
Elementary School, was in the first graduating class of Stringer High 
School in 1924, attended Mississippi Southern Teachers' College in 
Hattiesburg and Clarke College in Newton, as well as Southeastern 
Baptist College in Laurel. She took her teaching certificate and taught 
fourth grade at Polkville and third grade at Fellowship Community in 
Jasper County. She married a farmer named William Judson Wilson and 
reared seven children together for sixty-six years until his death.
  She is still actively engaged in housekeeping, cooking, gardening, 
reading and studying, quilting, sewing, and crafting. She cooks special 
dishes for shut-ins, church and community socials, and special needs 
diets. She creates gift baskets filled with her baked breads, cookies, 
relishes, preserves, and jellies. She cuts flowers from her garden to 
make arrangements for special occasions. She grows plants to put into 
decorated pots for gifts. The hallmark of Ruby's talents is quilting 
and she has made over a hundred for newly weds, graduates, babies, and 
crisis victims.
  Mr. Speaker, Ruby is thoughtful and careful to feed her mind, body 
and soul; keeping active and balancing a strong body and her strong 
faith. Her commitment to the Word of God and her saving Lord has given 
her purpose and her life's strength. I've known her family my whole 
life and she has been a blessing to them, her community, her friends 
and everyone she comes in contact with. I hope this Congress joins me 
in wishing her a very happy one-hundredth birthday and praying she has 
many years with the Mississippi she so loves and serves.

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