[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 31, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3450-S3451]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               ELMO AND NANCY MARTINELLI 50TH ANNIVERSARY

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I rise today to congratulate Elmo and Nancy 
Martinelli on their 50th wedding anniversary. These two native Nevadans 
have demonstrated a remarkable commitment to each other and their 
family for these past five decades.
  Raised in Sparks, NV, Elmo and Nancy were high school sweethearts and 
were married on April 25, 1954. The son of Italian immigrants, Elmo 
served in the Army and opened a barber shop, which he owned for more 
than 30 years until his retirement in 1994. Nancy worked as an office 
secretary and bookkeeper until motherhood arrived in 1955.
  Throughout their lives, Elmo and Nancy have dedicated themselves to 
ensuring that their children--Greg, Craig, Sheila, and Julie--could 
enjoy the best possible opportunities life has to offer. Their family 
would grow over time to include five grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.
  As their children grew and moved on to college, the Martinellis 
created a new and no less active life, which included regular weekly 
golf games, improvement and maintenance of their home, and worldwide 
travel. In fact, Elmo and Nancy have traveled throughout the United 
States in their motor home, visited most of Europe and the Far East, 
and have taken cruises on most of the world's major bodies of water.
  In the mid-1990s, the couple sold their Reno home where they had 
lived for 39 years and embarked on a new adventure: the construction of 
their dream

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home. Elmo and Nancy built their new abode on an acre of land nestled 
in the foothills of the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains in southwest 
Reno. It is a testament to both Elmo and Nancy that their retirement 
has produced some of the most exciting times of their lives.
  It gives me great pleasure to offer my sincerest congratulations to 
Elmo and Nancy on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary.

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