[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18714]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO ROBERT KOEHNEN

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, I rise tonight in sadness to acknowledge 
the loss of a dear friend from Ord Bend, California, Robert Koehnen.
  Bob is a guy who loved life and loved sharing it with his family and 
his friends. He could be happiest out in one of his orchards or at his 
apiary forming new queen bees in their little queen cages, or on the 
back of a Harley-Davidson or under the hood of a Dodge or Ford hot rod. 
He loved sharing that with everybody.
  He was a humble man, but he was a real innovator, with harvesting 
equipment, orchard practices, and beekeeping practices that really put 
him at the cutting edge, even the humble man he was. You could see how 
humble he was in some of the things he said. One of the funny ones was 
that he didn't want to have a big birthday or big event on a weekend 
because, as he would say it, ``I don't want to screw up a guy's 
weekend.'' Indeed, in that humility, his family held his memorial 
service yesterday, on Wednesday at noon, maybe so it wouldn't screw up 
a guy's weekend.
  Bob was a great man, a pillar of the community, a pillar in 
agriculture. He will be severely missed by his wife, Yvonne; his sons, 
Kalin and Kamron; brother, Bill; sister, Cleone; and a whole bunch of 
family and a whole bunch of friends who call him family, call him a 
dear friend.
  God bless him.

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