[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 22, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1520]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO GLADYS MARTENS

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 22, 2008

  Mr. LATHAM. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Gladys 
Martens on the occasion of her 100th birthday on July 15, 2008.
   Gladys was born on July 15, 1908 in Adair County, Iowa, as Gladys 
Petrie. She is a graduate of Drake University and was a teacher in 
Linden, Iowa. In 1939, she married Grant Martens and moved to a farm in 
rural Madison County, where she lived until 1997. Gladys is a life-long 
member of Van Meter Trinity Lutheran Church and currently lives at the 
West Bridge Care Center in Winterset, Iowa.
   There have been many changes that have occurred during the past one 
hundred years. Since Gladys' birth we have revolutionized air travel 
and walked on the moon. We have invented the television and the 
Internet. We have fought in wars overseas, seen the rise and fall of 
Soviet communism and the birth of new democracies. Gladys has lived 
through eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-four Governors of 
Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States has more 
than tripled.
   I congratulate Gladys Martens for reaching this milestone of a 
birthday. I am extremely honored to represent Gladys in the United 
States Congress, and I wish her happiness and health in her future 
years.

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