February 14, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 29 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages S1355-S1356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING WALTER JONES

  Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, I come to the floor with a heavy heart 
today. A colleague in the House passed away, and right at this very 
moment, down in Greenville, NC, we have a number of Congressmen and 
friends and family members congregated to celebrate the life and mourn 
the death of Congressman Jones.
  Congressman Jones served in Congress for over 24 years. His dad 
served before that. Between the two of them, the Jones family has 
represented the eastern portion of North Carolina for 50 out of the 
last 53 years.
  Now, Congressman Jones was somebody who was a bit of a maverick and a 
bit of an independent spirit on the House side, and we didn't agree on 
certain measures. But I never doubted his sincerity and his heart and 
his commitment to North Carolina and to this great Nation.
  He is survived by his wife Joe Anne of over 50 years. In fact, they 
were married in 1966.

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  He has a number of people in the statehouse who served with him, in a 
chamber where I was speaker of the house. They are mourning his death 
today. I couldn't be there in person because we have to be here for the 
votes that we are taking up this afternoon, but I wanted the Jones 
family to know, and all the people in Eastern North Carolina, how much 
I cared for and loved Walter Jones.

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