Bill Text: TX HR1550 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: In memory of Mickey Darnell Lewis of Malakoff.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-11 - Reported enrolled [HR1550 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR1550-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 1550 |
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WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of admired | ||
educator Mickey Darnell Lewis of Malakoff, who died on March 26, | ||
2017, at the age of 72; and | ||
WHEREAS, The son of Flonnie and James Lewis, Mickey Lewis was | ||
born in Malakoff on June 15, 1944; he graduated from | ||
Hamshire-Fannett High School and interrupted his college education | ||
to enlist in the U.S. Air Force; during the Vietnam War, he was | ||
stationed on Okinawa as a flight mechanic, and he went on to work as | ||
a jet engine mechanic at Stewart Air Force Base in New York; he | ||
subsequently returned to Stephen F. Austin State University to | ||
complete both his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in | ||
education; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mr. Lewis taught science at Crockett Intermediate | ||
School for more than three decades; instilling a love of science and | ||
nature in his students, he supplemented classroom instruction with | ||
an annual camping trip, and many of his pupils considered him their | ||
favorite teacher; he was also a special education teacher for | ||
several years, serving in the Crockett and Palestine Independent | ||
School Districts and in a remote Eskimo village, Akiachak, Alaska; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, A devoted family man, Mr. Lewis shared a fulfilling | ||
marriage of more than a half century with his wife, Norma Patricia | ||
Aubey Lewis, and he was the father of three treasured children, | ||
Noralee, Audrey, and Brant; in later years, he took great pride in | ||
his grandsons, Aaron, Jared, and Nathan Cravens and Gavin Lewis; he | ||
enjoyed taking family camping trips to observe animals and plants | ||
in the great outdoors, and he and his wife traveled to all 50 | ||
states, as well as to Mexico, Canada, Australia, and Europe; with | ||
his eldest grandson, he harvested trees and built a log cabin, and | ||
when he began growing sugarcane, he shared jars of homemade syrup | ||
with friends, relatives, and fellow retired teachers; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mickey Lewis enriched the lives of innumerable | ||
people, and those who were fortunate enough to know him will forever | ||
remember his kindness, his enthusiasm, and his profound | ||
appreciation for the natural world; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 85th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Mickey Darnell Lewis | ||
and extend sincere sympathy to his loved ones; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of | ||
Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Mickey | ||
Lewis. | ||
Wray | ||
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Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 1550 was unanimously adopted by a | ||
rising vote of the House on May 4, 2017. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||