H.R. No. 76

	R E S O L U T I O N
	WHEREAS, The family and friends of U.S. Navy Petty Officer
	2nd Class Charles Victor Komppa of Absarokee, Montana, suffered an
	immeasurable loss with the death of this valiant soldier on October
	25, 2006, at the age of 35; and
	WHEREAS, A combat electrician with the 3rd Naval Construction
	Regiment, Petty Officer Komppa was killed when a roadside bomb
	struck his convoy in the Al Anbar province of Iraq; and
	WHEREAS, This native Texan was born in Conroe on September
	24, 1971, and attended Ingram Tom Moore High School, where he was a
	member of the football and cross-country teams; soon after his 1990
	graduation, he joined the Navy and went on to serve in Operation
	Desert Storm before receiving an honorable discharge in 1995; he
	subsequently earned a diploma in construction electricity from
	Minnesota State Community and Technical College and completed an
	electrical apprenticeship at Leister Electric in Livingston,
	Montana; he was later employed as an electrician at the Stillwater
	Mining Company; and
	WHEREAS, Petty Officer Komppa enlisted in the U.S. Navy
	Seabees Reserves in 2003 and reenlisted three years later; he was
	deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in September 2006; and
	WHEREAS, A devoted husband and father, Chuck Komppa shared
	more than 15 years with his wife, Delisa, and took great pleasure in
	sharing his love for the outdoors with their children, Alicia and
	Gary, on fishing, hunting, and camping expeditions; Officer Komppa
	was also a faithful member of Absarokee Evangelical Church and was
	known for his generosity and kindness toward others; and
	WHEREAS, Our state and nation are fortunate to have men and
	women whose love for their country inspires them to volunteer for
	military service, yet the tragic death of this exemplary man is a
	sobering reminder of the cost of war; Chuck Komppa embodied the
	highest ideals of the armed services, and his bravery and sacrifice
	will never be forgotten; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 80th Texas
	Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of U.S. Navy Petty
	Officer 2nd Class Charles Victor Komppa and extend sincere sympathy
	to the members of his family: to his wife, Delisa Komppa; to his
	children, Alicia and Gary Komppa; to his father, Gary Komppa; to his
	mother, Margaret Martin, and her husband, Chuck; to his brother,
	Steven Komppa, and his wife, Tracy; to his sister, Senia Carlson; to
	his grandparents, Charles and Helen Bradshaw; to his
	brother-in-law, Dawayne Dewey, and his wife, Yvonne; to his
	sisters-in-law, Darla Carroll and her husband, Mark, and Delores
	Brown; to his nephews and nieces, McKinna, Steven, Gaige, Kyle,
	Keith, Clancie, Jessica, Weston, and Donovan; to his mother-in-law,
	Gayle McIntyre, and her husband, Dick; to his father-in-law, Ken
	Dewey; and to his other relatives and many friends; and, be it
	further
	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
	prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of
	Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Charles
	Victor Komppa.
	Hilderbran
	Craddick Gattis Miles
	Allen Geren Miller
	Alonzo Giddings Moreno
	Anchia Gonzales Morrison
	Anderson Gonzalez Toureilles Mowery
	Aycock Goolsby Murphy
	Bailey Guillen Naishtat
	Berman Haggerty Noriega
	Bohac Hamilton O'Day
	Bolton Hancock Oliveira
	Bonnen Hardcastle Olivo
	Branch Harless Orr
	Brown of Kaufman Harper-Brown Ortiz, Jr.
	Brown of Brazos Hartnett Otto
	Burnam Heflin Parker
	Callegari Hernandez Patrick
	Castro Herrero Paxton
	Chavez Hilderbran Pena
	Chisum Hill Phillips
	Christian Hochberg Pickett
	Cohen Hodge Pierson
	Coleman Homer Pitts
	Cook of Navarro Hopson Puente
	Cook of Colorado Howard of Fort Bend Quintanilla
	Corte Howard of Travis Raymond
	Crabb Hughes Riddle
	Creighton Isett Ritter
	Crownover Jackson Rodriguez
	Darby Jones Rose
	Davis of Harris Keffer Smith of Tarrant
	Davis of Dallas King of Parker Smith of Harris
	Delisi King of Taylor Smithee
	Deshotel King of Zavala Solomons
	Driver Kolkhorst Strama
	Dukes Krusee Straus
	Dunnam Kuempel Swinford
	Dutton Latham Talton
	Eiland Laubenberg Taylor
	Eissler Leibowitz Thompson
	Elkins Lucio III Truitt
	England Macias Turner
	Escobar Madden Van Arsdale
	Farabee Mallory Caraway Vaught
	Farias Martinez Veasey
	Farrar Martinez Fischer Villarreal
	Flores McCall Vo
	Flynn McClendon West
	Frost McReynolds Woolley
	Gallego Menendez Zedler
	Garcia Merritt Zerwas
	______________________________
	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.R. No. 76 was unanimously adopted by a rising
	vote of the House on March 1, 2007.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House