[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 2576]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING RANDY JONES

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                           HON. JOHN SHIMKUS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 26, 2008

  Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart to pay 
tribute to a great American patriot.
  Randy Jones served the American people as a staff sergeant in the 
U.S. Army from 1972 until 1980, and then as a civilian employee of the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for over 20 years. He did his duty to our 
Nation through two deployments overseas in the war on terror and 
through his work at the Melvin Price Lock and Dam. At the time of his 
death last week, he was the Lockmaster at Lock and Dam 27 on the 
Mississippi River. He is remembered by his colleagues as a dedicated 
employee and a mentor to a great many co-workers.
  My thoughts and those of the House go out to his wife Sharon, and his 
three daughters and two sons-in-law, Lori and Jeremy Cole, Meredith and 
Kenneth Zimmer, and Shara Jones, his son and daughter-in-law, Chad and 
Ann Jones, his eight grandchildren, as well as his brothers and sisters 
and all his neighbors and friends in Brighton, Illinois.
  All of America is grateful for Randy's service to our Nation, and he 
will be dearly missed by all who knew him.

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