[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARY WADE

 Mr. NELSON of Nebraska. Mr. President, today I bid farewell to 
a great Nebraskan. Mrs. Mary Wade, affectionately known as ``Mother 
Wade.'' She has selflessly served thousands of members of the Salem 
Baptist Church in Omaha for more than 65 years.
  At the age of 92, Mrs. Wade is now moving away from Nebraska where 
she has lived since moving to my home State in 1944. She will be living 
with her adult children in Los Angeles, CA.
  Mrs. Wade is known far and wide for her service to not only Salem 
Baptist Church but to the entire Omaha community. She worked hand in 
hand with her late husband, Dr. J.C. Wade, Sr., who was the pastor at 
Salem Baptist for many years before his retirement in 1988.
  After Dr. Wade's death in 1999, Mrs. Wade continued to serve the 
people of Omaha and to provide counsel to members of Salem Baptist 
Church, whose membership, under the leadership of the Wades, grew from 
250 to more than 2000.
  Thanks to her wise counsel, direction, and leadership, Omaha is a 
better place because of Mother Mary Frazier Wade.
  I join all Nebraskans in bidding Mrs. Wade a fond farewell and 
thanking her for her service. We will miss her, and we wish her 
well.

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