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IN HONOR OF MR. EDDIE L. PEARCE
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HON. ROBERT B. ADERHOLT
of alabama
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Mr. ADERHOLT. Madam Speaker, I would like to recognize a lifetime of dedication and expertise by Mr. Eddie Pearce of Hamilton, Alabama for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award that recognizes 60 years of service as a National Weather Service Cooperative Observer.
Mr. Pearce was born in Pecos County, Texas and moved to Alabama when he was only 14 years old. From a very young age he had a strong interest in the weather and began taking and observing daily temperate readings in November of 1961.
Since then, his passion and dedication has led him to aiding the daily operations of meteorologists across the state. His expertise in topography has proven essential to understanding and communicating to the public the importance of elevation temperature changes on our climate in Alabama.
During his time observing the weather in Hamilton, he saw the many ways our weather can reach the extremes. Back in January of 1966, he recorded his record low temperature of -19 degrees. This was the same day the state of Alabama set its record low temperature of -27 degrees recorded at New Market in Madison County. On the other end of the meteorological spectrum, Mr. Pearce recorded his record high temperature in August of 2007. His recording station hit 109 degrees during a record setting heat and drought that impacted all of Alabama.
The National Weather Service is honored to have an observer such as Mr. Pearce on their side and presented him with the Lifetime Achievement Award on November 2, 2021. Mr. Pearce was married to Rosemary Ritchie Pearce for more than six decades. She passed away in 2019.
They had two children, son Eddie Pearce III and daughter Shawn Armstrong.
I want to congratulate Mr. Pearce on this well-deserved achievement as he portrays a great example of the genuine, hard-working people who make up Alabama's 4th District. I want to wish him all the best and thank him for his service to his community, Marion County, and all of Alabama.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 203
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