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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of Howard |
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Lee Mangold of San Antonio, who died on April 8, 2009, at the age of |
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76; and |
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WHEREAS, Howard Mangold was born in Keyser, West Virginia, on |
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January 31, 1933, to Howard Taft Mangold and Oma Gladys Mangold; |
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after graduating from Keyser High School in 1950, he attended |
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Potomac State College; and |
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WHEREAS, Interested in aviation from an early age, he earned |
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his pilot's license at the age of 19 and purchased an Aeronca |
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Champion airplane; a few years later, he enlisted in the U.S. Air |
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Force and was accepted into the aviation cadet program in 1955; and |
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WHEREAS, He married the former Vivian Knopp in 1957, and |
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after his discharge from the air force the couple lived in West |
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Virginia, where he worked first for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
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and then at Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory; and |
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WHEREAS, In 1962, Mr. Mangold and his wife moved to San |
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Antonio, where he attended San Antonio College, majoring in public |
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speaking, economics, and business administration; during his time |
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at the college, he won praise for his innovative ideas for reducing |
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the amount of plastic litter along roadways; he later went to work |
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in the Mech-Tech department at Kelly Air Force Base, and he earned |
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awards on two occasions for his money-saving ideas; and |
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WHEREAS, While continuing his employment at Kelly AFB, Mr. |
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Mangold opened the first of several motorcycle dealerships in the |
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San Antonio area, and then following his civil service retirement |
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in 1999, he served as an assistant for councilman and then mayor Ed |
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Garza and councilman Julian Castro; he also worked for Mannheim |
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Auto Auctions and held a patent for an invention called the Bridge |
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Buddy; and |
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WHEREAS, An energetic and innovative spirit, Howard Mangold |
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lived a full and productive life, and memories of happy times spent |
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in his company will be held forever in the hearts of those who knew |
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and loved him; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Howard Lee Mangold and |
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extend sincere sympathy to the members of his family: to his wife of |
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52 years, Vivian Mangold; to his daughter, Anita Louise Mangold |
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Eisthen; to his son, Howard Keith Mangold; and to his other |
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relatives and friends; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Howard Lee |
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Mangold. |
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Castro |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 2063 was unanimously adopted by a |
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rising vote of the House on May 19, 2009. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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