[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 29229]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE OF MRS. NETTIE DURANT DICKSON

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                        HON. JOHN M. SPRATT, JR.

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 2, 2009

  Mr. SPRATT. Madam Speaker, I would like to call the attention of the 
House to the death of a remarkable woman. On November 29, Mrs. Nettie 
DuRant Dickson of Darlington, South Carolina, died at the age of 106. 
Remarkable not only for her age, but for a life full of accomplishment, 
Mrs. Dickson and her late husband, William James Dickson, owned the 
Darlington Hardware. Mrs. Dickson was a member of the Darlington 
Presbyterian Church and active for years with the American Legion 
Auxiliary. In the past few years she resided at the Methodist Manor in 
Florence, South Carolina and then at Agape Senior Care in Irmo, South 
Carolina.
  One of twelve children, Nettie DuRant Dickson is survived by sibling 
Marion DuRant, daughters Elizabeth Betty DuPre and Jeanette D. Renfrow, 
numerous nieces and nephews, four grandsons, and three great-grandsons.
  In the end, what counts most is not how long we lived, but how well. 
On both counts, Nettie DuRant Dickson lived a good and fruitful life.

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