[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 9518-9519]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




TRIBUTE TO MRS. JEAN MARIE SLOUGH McINTOSH, MOTHER OF FORMER U.S. HOUSE 
                    REPRESENTATIVE DAVID M. McINTOSH

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                            HON. MIKE PENCE

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 19, 2007

  Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor one of the great 
mothers of Indiana, Mrs. Jean Marie Slough McIntosh, the late mother of 
former Representative David McIntosh of Indiana, my predecessor. Mrs. 
McIntosh dedicated her life to the service of others as a nurse and 
judge, but more importantly as a mother and faithful wife.
  Jean McIntosh was born on December 20, 1925 in Bourbon, a small town 
just off the

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beaten path of US Highway 30 in northern Indiana. She graduated from 
Bourbon High School as the Class of 1943 valedictorian. Mrs. McIntosh 
then moved to Chicago where she studied nursing at the Methodist 
Hospital School of Nursing. After completing her training in nursing, 
she moved to San Francisco, California where she met and married Norman 
Benjamin and started their family of four children. After the death of 
her husband in 1964, Mrs. McIntosh returned to Indiana where she 
remarried and raised her family in Kendallville, Indiana.
  While in Kendallville, Mrs. McIntosh compassionately served her 
community as a nurse, and then as a two-term Kendallville City Judge 
beginning in 1971. After moving to Charlestown, SC in 1981, she 
completed her nursing career at the Psychiatric Institute of University 
Medical Hospital. She also taught English as a Second Language courses 
at Our Lady of Mercy Church.
  Mrs. McIntosh is survived by two brothers, Robert Slough and James 
Slough; two daughters, Beth Vanderbeck and Liliane Heller; and two 
sons, former Congressman David McIntosh and Malcolm McIntosh.
  Mrs. McIntosh left a legacy of service and compassion, and through 
her son, David McIntosh, served the residents of the Sixth District of 
Indiana. Thank you, Mrs. McIntosh, for the strong foundation of service 
that you laid as a faithful wife, mother, nurse, and judge. Our 
thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the late Jean 
Marie Slough McIntosh.

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