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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Lois S. Crook has been honored for her service |
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during World War II by the Waco Tribune-Herald in its "Voices of |
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Valor" series; and |
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WHEREAS, Raised in North Dakota, Lois Crook graduated from |
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Trinity Hospital School of Nursing as a registered nurse in 1943 and |
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joined the United States Army Air Forces the following year at Lowry |
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Field in Colorado; she served in Marfa, where there were only eight |
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nurses to care for thousands of service personnel; subsequently, |
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she was stationed in Arizona, California, and Mississippi, as well |
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as in Amarillo, and she rose to the rank of captain; and |
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WHEREAS, Her first husband, Clyde Ray Jones Jr., was an air |
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force pilot; following his death in the line of duty in England in |
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1953, she returned to the United States with her daughter, Leslie, |
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and completed her bachelor's degree at the University of |
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Mississippi; she remarried in 1958 and began a career with the |
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Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Waco that spanned 25 years; and |
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WHEREAS, Lois Crook served her country with skill and |
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dedication as a member of the Greatest Generation, and she has |
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earned the lasting respect and appreciation of her fellow |
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Americans; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas |
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Legislature hereby congratulate Lois Crook on her inclusion in the |
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Waco Tribune-Herald "Voices of Valor" series and extend to her |
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sincere best wishes for continued happiness; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for Mrs. Crook as an expression of high regard by the Texas |
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House of Representatives. |