[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11556]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING THE LIFE OF MRS. LUCY HALL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I guess if I had not had to be 
here today, I would have been back in my community, where I live, at 
the Friendship Baptist Church, and I would have been there because 
today was the funeral for Mrs. Lucy Hall, who was the wife of the 
pastor of that church for the last 50 years.
  The Hall family have made tremendous impact on not only the community 
where we live, but also on the city of Chicago and its surrounding 
communities.
  Mrs. Hall was a retired educator. She and her husband raised their 
three children in our neighborhood. Two of their children are judges. 
One is an appellate court judge in the State of Illinois. The other is 
a supreme court judge in New York, and of course, their son is a noted 
psychologist who works in the State of New York.
  But Mrs. Hall exemplified the essence of excellence. She was indeed a 
grand lady, full of dignity, full of charm, full of commitment, full of 
dedication and full of hard work. She and her husband are legends in 
our neighborhood.
  They developed programs which originated at the Friendship Baptist 
Church to deal with health issues such as cancer. They provided 
mammogram screening and education. They had after-school reading and 
boy scouts and tutoring.
  So I simply take to the floor this evening to extend my condolences 
to the Hall family, to Reverend Shelvin Jerome Hall, to Judge Shelvin 
Louise Hall, to Judge Hall of the Supreme Court in New York, to their 
brother and the Halls' son and all of the members of a great family in 
the community where I live and work.
  We shall miss her, but we rejoice in the life that she lived.

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