Bill Text: TX SR66 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing Billie Gertrude Hooks Manck on the occasion of her 100th birthday.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-07-25 - Reported enrolled [SR66 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SR66-Enrolled.html
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| WHEREAS, The 100th birthday of an esteemed Texan is indeed | ||
| cause for celebration, and Billie Gertrude Hooks Manck marked | ||
| this momentous milestone in her life on June 3, 2017, in the | ||
| company of family and friends; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Born in Battiest, Oklahoma, in 1917, the former | ||
| Billie Hooks was the only child of Bessie and Q. P. Hooks; her | ||
| mother died when she was just two years old, and following her | ||
| father's remarriage, she grew up with four brothers, Donald, | ||
| Bobbie, Charles, and Corky; and | ||
| WHEREAS, She graduated from Gaston High School, where she | ||
| met her future husband, Lloyd T. Manck; they married in November | ||
| 1934, and they eventually became the proud parents of six | ||
| children, Shirley Ruth, Marilynn, Doris, Donnie, Nina, and Lynn; | ||
| early in their life together, they moved to Illinois and Ohio, | ||
| but they returned to East Texas in 1942; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Following the war, Mr. Manck founded a machine | ||
| shop that grew into a firm specializing in road-boring, and | ||
| Mrs. Manck frequently accompanied him on business trips across | ||
| the United States and Canada; in 1954, they relocated the company | ||
| to 64 acres in Henderson, where they also raised prize-winning | ||
| Herefords and Brittany spaniels; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Manck and her husband shared a fulfilling | ||
| relationship of nearly 53 years until his passing; she continued to | ||
| run the machine shop with her son, Lynn, before selling it in 2004; | ||
| recently, she moved from her home of more than six decades to live | ||
| with her youngest daughter, Nina; she is the beloved matriarch of a | ||
| fine family that has grown to include 21 grandchildren, 32 | ||
| great-grandchildren, and 8 great-great-grandchildren; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Billie Manck has witnessed a panorama of change | ||
| over the course of a century, and she has met life's challenges and | ||
| opportunities with dignity and grace, earning the deep admiration | ||
| of all who are privileged to know her; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 85th | ||
| Legislature, 1st Called Session, hereby congratulate Billie | ||
| Gertrude Hooks Manck on her 100th birthday and extend to her | ||
| sincere best wishes for continued happiness; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for | ||
| Mrs. Manck as an expression of high regard from the Texas Senate. | ||
| Hughes | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on July 25, 2017. | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Member, Texas Senate | ||
