[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 96 (Friday, July 15, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1495]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO JENNIE MIRZA ESHOO

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 14, 2005

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Jennie Mirza Eshoo who 
will celebrate her 90th birthday on July 17, 2005.
  Jennie Eshoo was born Jennie Katherine Mirza in Chicago, Illinois on 
July 17, 1915, to Agase B. Mirza and Martha Alaverdy Mirza, the first 
of the couple's seven children. She graduated from Waller High School 
in Chicago in 1934 and on September 22 of that year she married Paul 
Eshoo.
  Jennie and Paul Eshoo moved from Chicago to Turlock, California where 
they raised four children, Peter, George, Agnes and Alice, on the 
family farm. They were active in the Assyrian-American community and 
Paul was a founder of the Turlock Assyrian American Civic Club.
  Jennie has an abiding love of our country and serves our democracy as 
a faithful precinct supervisor on the elections board. She is a devoted 
member of St. John's Presbyterian Church where she's served as Clerk of 
the Session and Elder for more than 30 years. She is known throughout 
the community for her generosity and helpfulness to so many, and has 
volunteered at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock for over three 
decades.
  Jennie is an avid reader whose taste ranges from National Geographic 
to the latest novels. She loves to travel and relishes visiting in 
person the sites she has ``visited'' in the Bible and other readings. 
Jennie conquers crossword puzzles in minutes, entering each solution in 
ink, never needing an eraser.
  Jennie Eshoo is the matriarch of a large and loving family. In 
addition to her four children, she has eight grandchildren and eight 
great-grandchildren. Her grandchildren are Lisa Brown, Lorie Hill, 
Cherie Thompson, Christine Benjamin Nedved, Michelle Benjamin Eldridge, 
Annelise Martella, Karen Eshoo and Paul Eshoo. Her great-grandchildren 
are Amanda and Emily Brown, Madison and Jacob Eldridge, Cory Hill, 
Katherine and Jacqueline Nedved, and Peter Thompson.
  Mr. Speaker, I'm proud to honor Jennie Mirza Eshoo as she celebrates 
her 90th birthday. I ask my colleagues to join me, her family and her 
many friends in saluting her as she celebrates this extraordinary 
milestone, and we thank her for her lifetime of service to her family, 
her community and her country.

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