[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 96 (Tuesday, July 16, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1263]
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           HONORING LAURA E. PAUL LONG ON HER 100TH BIRTHDAY

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                          HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 16, 2002

  Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mrs. Laura E. Paul Long 
of Gratz, Pennsylvania. On August 3, Laura will be celebrating her 
100th birthday.
  Laura is the daughter of Maria Hoch Paul and David D. Paul and was 
born on August 3, 1902, in Leck Kill, Pennsylvania. She spent her 
childhood in Lower Mahanoy Township with her parents and siblings and 
was married in 1922 to Samuel Felix Long.
  Laura worked at Pillow Manufacturing in Pillow, Pennsylvania and for 
Dormar Manufacturing located in Gratz, Pennsylvania. She finally 
retired from Dormar Manufacturing around the age of 68.
  Content with her life in Pennsylvania, Laura never left the state 
until after she retired when she traveled throughout Europe with her 
youngest daughter.
  Although noted for her crocheting, Laura is renowned for her talent 
at continuing a line of geraniums descendant from the plants she grew 
on her farm in Klingerstown, PA in the 1930's. Her geraniums still 
thrive today.
  Laura is also very dedicated to her family with nine children, 29 
grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren, and 23 great-grandchildren. She 
was widowed in 1966.
  I ask my colleagues in the House to join me in wishing Laura a 
wonderful One-Hundredth Birthday and continued health and happiness for 
many years to come.

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