[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13825]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING CASSANDRA LLOYD WARD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Butterfield) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to pay tribute to 
some great Americans. I want to join my colleague from Illinois (Mrs. 
Biggert) in recognizing the extraordinary life and work of Senator 
Charles Percy. He will certainly be missed. Also, I want to extend 
condolences to the Mondale and Kennedy families, who also lost a 
daughter this weekend at the young age of 51.
  But, Mr. Speaker, I have come to the well today to pay tribute to 
another great American, to a friend in North Carolina who has lost a 
long but courageous battle to breast cancer at the age of 51. Mrs. 
Cassandra Lloyd Ward was the daughter of Johnnie and Mary Lloyd of 
Williamston, North Carolina. She was also the wife of Mr. Everett B. 
Ward. For 29 long years, they were married. Everett is a well-respected 
public servant in North Carolina with our State Department of 
Transportation.
  Cassandra was a career educator in Wake County, North Carolina. Many 
of you will recognize that as our capital city of Raleigh. She worked 
for many years in the Wake County Public Schools. The epitome of 
educational excellence, Cassandra touched the lives of countless 
individuals who have now become productive citizens in our communities 
across America.
  Cassandra was employed by the Wake County Public School System 
beginning with Youngsville Elementary, Henry Adams Elementary, Dillard 
Drive Elementary, and, finally, Forest Pines Elementary School. She was 
a lifelong member of the North Carolina Association of Educators.
  Cassandra Ward, Mr. Speaker, was a graduate of Williamston High 
School in Martin County, North Carolina, also a graduate of historic 
St. Augustine's College in our capital city of Raleigh, which is an 
HBCU, a historically black college there in the Raleigh community.
  As a member of Davie Street Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, Cassandra 
was a church leader, not only a member of the Presbyterian Church, but 
she was also a deacon in the church. She advocated that the church 
serve the least of these in our society. She was a member of a great 
sorority, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. In that 
capacity, as a member of the Alpha Theta Omega Chapter, she served and 
chaired many committees, particularly the Black Family/Black Heritage; 
Health, Social and Sisterly Relations; Salvation Army; and Christmas 
Stocking Stuffing committees. Those were a lot of committees.
  And, Mr. Speaker, she was a very active individual. She also found 
time to be associated with the Gamma Sigma Boule of Sigma Pi Phi 
Fraternity. She was what was referred to as an archousa. It took me a 
while, Mr. Speaker, to figure out how to pronounce that word, but she 
was an archousa of Gamma Sigma Boule of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.
  Mr. Speaker, Cassandra Ward leaves a very, very loving family. In 
addition to her parents and her husband, she leaves three siblings, 
Johnnie Lloyd, Jr., Jarvis Lloyd, and one loving sister that she was 
extremely close to, Crystal Lloyd Williams, and her sister-in-law, 
Felecia Hardy, and her husband, Dr. James Hardy.
  She is also survived by other relatives and friends, and especially 
her very special nieces and nephews: Johnnie Lloyd, III; Alecia Hardy, 
Jarvis Lloyd and Eboni, Jamie Hardy, Jamecia Hardy, Mary Noel Williams, 
and Gabrielle Williams. They all comprise the wonderful family of 
Cassandra Lloyd Ward.
  I ask my colleagues today to join with me in honoring the life and 
work of this great American, Cassandra Lloyd Ward.

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