[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 14240]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                IN MEMORY OF RAYMOND C. SINGLETARY, JR.

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 22, 2011

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
great American farm advocate, successful businessman and dedicated 
community leader from the State of Georgia, Raymond C. Singletary, Jr.
  Mr. Singletary, a pillar in Georgia's agricultural community, 
recently passed away at the age of 99 at Pioneer Community Hospital of 
Early in Blakely, Georgia. His funeral service was held at the First 
United Methodist Church on Saturday, September 17, 2011.
  He was born March 26, 1912 to the late Raymond Cook Singletary, Sr. 
and Emma Quillian Singletary. He was preceded in death by his loving 
wife Margaret Sparks Singletary, his two sons Raymond Clifford 
Singletary and Marvin Sparks Singletary, and a brother A.J. Singletary 
and a sister Alice S. Dunn.
  A lifelong Georgian, Mr. Singletary attended Sewanee Military Academy 
and graduated from Emory University in 1932 where he was a member of 
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
  Following his graduation from college, Mr. Singletary embarked on a 
tenured and successfully dynamic professional career in the fields of 
agriculture, banking and community service. He was a member of the 
Blakely Peanut Company and served as President from 1944 until 1978, 
and as Chairman of the Board from 1944 to 1985. Additionally, he was a 
member of the National Peanut Council, and served as the association's 
Chairman in 1966.
  Along with his advocacy efforts on behalf of Georgia's peanut 
farmers, Mr. Singletary was the Supervisor of the Flint River Soil and 
Water Conservation District from 1944 to 1971, and was Supervisor 
Emeritus from 1977 to 2011. Moreover, he served as a member of the 
Presidential Commission on World Hunger from 1979 to 1980.
  Despite the demanding commitments associated with his occupational 
duties and agricultural advocacy initiatives, Mr. Singletary still 
found time to remain actively involved with other community 
organizations. He was a Mason, a Shriner, former Chairman of the Board 
of the First United Methodist Church and a distinguished member of the 
Blakely Rotary Club. In 2009, he received the Rotary Club's most 
prestigious award, the Four Avenues of Service Award.
  He is survived by a daughter, Anne S. Hammack and her husband Albert 
of Dalton, Ga.; a daughter-in-law, Henrietta Singletary of Albany, Ga.; 
a sister, Emily S. Garner of Milledgeville, Ga.; 5 grandchildren: James 
Albert Hammack, III and wife Elizabeth of Atlanta, Ga; Margaret H. Long 
and husband Jason of Atlanta, Ga; McArthur Singletary and Duncan 
Singletary, both of St. Simmons Island, Fl. and Raymond Singletary of 
Atlanta, Ga.; 2 great-grandchildren: James Albert Hammack IV and Mary 
Moore Hammack of Atlanta, Ga.
  I would like to ask my colleagues to join me in paying homage to 
Raymond C. Singletary, Jr. He lived a full life and the people of 
southwest Georgia will always be indebted to him for his unyielding 
support of our state's peanut farmers and our agricultural community 
at-large. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and the 
Blakely, Georgia community at this time of great loss.

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