[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18902-18903]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING RUFUS JONES

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I wish to offer a tribute to my uncle, 
Rufus Jones, who died last week at age 88. He was a dear friend, a 
devoted husband and father of six, and a WW II veteran who was a member 
of the ``greatest generation.'' In fact, he signed up for the Navy 
straight out of high school. He went back to school at Purdue after the 
war and got a degree in mechanical engineering and went on to a career 
in business. He also served his community in many ways, including being 
a member of the vestry at his church and a member of the Worthington, 
OH School Board.
  I remember him as an uncle who always had a smile on his face and 
never had an unpleasant word for anyone, as a friend later in life, and 
as a stalwart supporter of mine.
  Today, I was home in Ohio to attend the visitation and funeral of my 
uncle. I regret that I was absent from procedural votes, but had I not 
given him a proper farewell, I would have regretted that more. He will 
be missed.

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