[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 11193-11194]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    IN CELEBRATION OF MRS. BESSIE RUDOLPH ANDERSON'S 100TH BIRTHDAY

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 11, 2012

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
beloved role model and gracious woman of faith, Mrs. Bessie Mae Rudolph 
Anderson. On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Mrs. Anderson will be honored at 
an event celebrating her 100th birthday in Albany, Georgia.
  Mrs. Anderson was born on July 6, 1912 in Mount Willing, Alabama to 
lsiaah and Ada Eula Cabble Rudolph. She was the fifth of nine children. 
She and her brother, Will Arthur, are the only living siblings today.
  As she grew up, Mrs. Anderson helped her father on the farm and her 
mother in the house. In her free time, she was the ``Belle of the 
Ball'' as she loved to dance. She has always enjoyed fishing, reading, 
telling stories about her childhood, and cooking her famous biscuits.
  In 1924, Mrs. Anderson met William Anderson, a ``Georgia Boy.'' After 
dating for five years, they were married on July 28, 1929. They began 
their life together in Alabama where they had five children: William, 
Jr., Mattie Pearl, John Samuel, Rosie Maxine and Ernestine. In 1940, 
they moved to Georgia where they had six more children: Katherlean, Sim 
Hill, Lee Ernest, Lottye, Freddie Mae, and Charles Edward. Mrs. 
Anderson was a devoted wife and loving mother and worked hard to make a 
home for her family.
  When her youngest child started school, Mrs. Anderson began working 
for the Pope family in Thomasville, Georgia as a housekeeper and 
caregiver for their three children:

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Sissy, Dusty, and Miller. She was like family to the Popes and she 
loved those three children as her own.
  Mrs. Anderson often said she was a chemist and a nurse licensed in 
all states because whenever and wherever anyone fell ill, she was 
always willing to go and nurse them back to health using her own 
homemade medical remedies.
  Mrs. Anderson has achieved numerous successes in her life, but none 
of this would have been possible without the love and support of her 
late husband, William, her eleven children, and her 194 grandchildren 
and great-grandchildren.
  Most important to Mrs. Anderson is her sturdy and enduring 
relationship with the Lord. She is a longtime member of Mercy Seat 
Christian Church. She served as treasurer for the church for many years 
and still serves as Mother of the Church.
  The race of life isn't given to the swift or to the strong, but to 
those who endure until the end. Mrs. Anderson has run the race of life 
with grace and dignity and God has blessed her over her lifetime.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me today in paying tribute 
to Mrs. Bessie Mae Rudolph Anderson as she and her family prepares to 
celebrate her 100th birthday.

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