Bill Text: TX HR2198 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating Frances Tankersley Messer on her 100th birthday.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-30 - Reported enrolled [HR2198 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR2198-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 2198 |
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WHEREAS, Frances Tankersley Messer is celebrating her 100th | ||
birthday on September 23, 2023, and this occasion provides a | ||
welcome opportunity for family and friends to express the love and | ||
affection they hold for her; and | ||
WHEREAS, The former Frances Tankersley was born in Abilene in | ||
1923 to William Gaddis Tankersley and Mary Lea Pinegar Tankersley, | ||
and she grew up with three siblings, Cleon, Randall, and Billye | ||
Jean; her family relocated to Shamrock, Oklahoma, and then to | ||
Austin, where she graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School and | ||
was a member of the Red Jackets dance team; she earned a pharmacy | ||
degree from The University of Texas in 1944, and she became one of | ||
only a few women working as a pharmacist at the time; and | ||
WHEREAS, She met her future husband, James Messer, when she | ||
was a student at UT, and the couple were blessed with three | ||
children; in the early 1950s, Mrs. Messer and her family moved to | ||
San Antonio, and there she became an active volunteer with local and | ||
statewide dental auxiliaries and with her church; and | ||
WHEREAS, Today, Mrs. Messer is the proud matriarch of a | ||
family that includes her three daughters and sons-in-law, Dianne | ||
and Jack Pool, Nancy and Grover Campbell, and Janet and Greg | ||
Anderson, her five grandchildren, Jeff, Logan, Lee, Elizabeth, and | ||
William, and her three great-grandchildren, Tiegan, Hunter, and | ||
Henley; a woman of many interests and talents, she is a loyal UT | ||
football fan and a gifted cook, and she has traveled to numerous | ||
countries around the world; and | ||
WHEREAS, Frances Messer is a source of tremendous | ||
inspiration, and in sharing the experience gained through a century | ||
of life well lived, she bestows a precious gift of wisdom that | ||
benefits all who are fortunate enough to know her; now, therefore, | ||
be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby congratulate Frances Tankersley Messer on her | ||
100th birthday and extend to her sincere best wishes for continued | ||
happiness; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for Mrs. Messer as an expression of high regard by the | ||
Texas House of Representatives. | ||
Allison | ||
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Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 2198 was adopted by the House on May | ||
29, 2023, by a non-record vote. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||