Bill Text: TX HR1154 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: In memory of Maxine Edmondson Flournoy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-04-28 - Reported enrolled [HR1154 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR1154-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 1154 | ||
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| WHEREAS, A life made rich through meaningful service drew to | ||
| a close with the passing of Maxine Edmondson Flournoy on April 5, | ||
| 2023, at the age of 102; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The daughter of Dr. John Edmondson and Mary Ruth | ||
| Edmondson Jones, the former Maxine Edmondson was born on March 30, | ||
| 1921; she grew up in Joplin, Missouri, and attended Joplin Junior | ||
| College; after obtaining her pilot's license through the Civilian | ||
| Pilot Training Act program, she joined the Women Airforce Service | ||
| Pilots in 1943 and trained at Avenger Field in Sweetwater; she was | ||
| assigned to the navigation school at Hondo Army Airfield, where she | ||
| trained cadets in Beechcraft C-45s; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Following World War II, she worked as a company | ||
| pilot in Alice, where she met her future husband, Lucien Flournoy; | ||
| they raised three daughters, Mary Anne, Betty, and Helen, and | ||
| operated Flournoy Drilling Company and Alice Aviation together for | ||
| many decades; the couple enjoyed entertaining at Flournoy Park in | ||
| Alice and at their home on Lake Corpus Christi in the Carmel Hills | ||
| neighborhood; Mr. Flournoy passed away in 2003; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Flournoy gave generously of her time and | ||
| talents in behalf of the USO in Ingleside and at the Naval Air | ||
| Station Corpus Christi, and she was appointed by President Jimmy | ||
| Carter to the World USO Board of Directors; she also served with the | ||
| Texas Historical Commission; active in the WASP alumni group, the | ||
| Order of Fifinella, she flew a family-owned Cessna 337 to reunions | ||
| across the country; she was named president of the association in | ||
| 2002; two years later, the Commemorative Air Force in Ingleside was | ||
| named the Maxine Flournoy 3rd Coast Squadron CAF in her honor; she | ||
| was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for her military service; | ||
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| WHEREAS, A woman of strong faith, Mrs. Flournoy was a member | ||
| of First Presbyterian Church in Alice and then First Presbyterian | ||
| Church in Corpus Christi; she hosted Christian ministry groups | ||
| during the annual Institute in Basic Life Principles event in San | ||
| Antonio, and over the years, she provided hotels and meals for | ||
| hundreds of friends and employees; and | ||
| WHEREAS, While the death of Maxine Flournoy brings great | ||
| sadness to her family and friends, she leaves behind a legacy that | ||
| they will forever treasure; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby pay tribute to the memory of Maxine Edmondson | ||
| Flournoy and extend sincere condolences to the members of her | ||
| family: to her daughters, Mary Anne Guthrie and her husband, Greg, | ||
| Betty Louise Fields and her husband, Byron, and Helen Ruth Pope and | ||
| her husband, Bill; to her brother, Phil Edmondson; to her 11 | ||
| grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren; and to her other | ||
| relatives and friends; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of | ||
| Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Maxine | ||
| Edmondson Flournoy. | ||
| Hunter | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 1154 was unanimously adopted by a | ||
| rising vote of the House on April 28, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
