Speaker, I rise today in tribute to a
great man, a loving husband and father, a visionary entrepreneur, a
philanthropist and humanitarian, my beloved and dear friend, Mr. Lowell
Hawthorne of the Bronx, New York. Lowell Hawthorne immigrated to the United States from the beautiful
island nation of Jamaica in 1981 and, like most immigrants to our
country, began his pursuit of the American Dream. After working his way up the administrative ranks of the New York
City Police Department as an accountant handling police pensions, he
was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and started a home-based business
doing tax returns for coworkers and friends on the force. Determined to provide for his family a life that he never had, in
1989, inspired by his father and sisters, who were bakers, and with the
financial support of his wife and siblings, he would go on to open the
first Golden Krust Bakery, on East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, New
York.
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