Invidious Discrimination

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Mr. VEASEY. The next person here that I wish to recognize is Mr. Anderson Lampkin. His wife is still with us. They would have celebrated 73 years of marriage in August, an extraordinary couple. The reason why I have both of them pictured, even though Mr. Lampkin is the person that we lost, is because they did everything together as a family, the entire family. Whether it was Boy Scouts, whether it was all of their work at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church on the north side of Fort Worth, NAACP, they did everything together as a family. I think they are just an amazing example of what we need to get back to.

Mr. Lampkin was born in Gonzales, Texas, but was raised in Austin. When he left East Austin, he moved to Dallas, and then came to Fort Worth about 10 years later.

He liked to volunteer and be a part of the community. For 60 years, he was a sign language interpreter. He was the deaf ministry bus driver, a deacon at his church, a trustee at his church, a leader in his church. He was someone that was committed to public service as a nonelected official.

It was just amazing to go to a Boy Scout event, for instance, and see him and his wife involved, to see his kids involved, to see his grandkids involved in Boy Scouts. They did everything together as a unit.

His leadership and volunteer services touched so many different clubs and agencies in Fort Worth and in Tarrant County: Mission Shiloh, the Longhorn Council of the Boy Scouts there in Fort Worth, the Fort Worth Education Association, and many, many others.

He was from a very large family, and Mr. Lampkin is someone that is going to be missed greatly. I will miss seeing that couple at different events together.

I urge you to keep Ms. Dorothy Lampkin in prayer, and keep the kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids in prayer.

Mr. Speaker, I honor Mr. Lampkin for a job well done.

I thank the gentleman from Texas, my colleague, my delegation colleague, for giving me a few minutes to honor these extraordinary Americans.

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