[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 185 (Thursday, December 10, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2939]
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                       RECOGNIZING LOUISE JOHNSON

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, December 10, 2009

  Mr. LATHAM. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate and congratulate 
Louise Johnson on the occasion of her 100th birthday on December 24th, 
2009.
  Louise was born in Esmund, South Dakota in 1909. While growing up in 
South Dakota, she met and married Lars Vierson Teigland, and the two 
moved to Iowa in 1939, happily raising two sons, Lowell and Owen, who 
later served in the U.S. Army. After Lars passed away she married 
Haakin Johnson, who she also spent many happy years with.
  Louise has lived on and managed the family farm in Emmetsburg, Iowa 
for forty-four years until November of this year when she moved to 
Lakeside Nursing Home. She's enjoyed being a member of the Emmetsburg 
flower club, collecting dolls, making corn husk dolls and being 
passionate about politics.
  There have been many changes that have occurred during the past one 
hundred years. Since Louise's 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. Louise has also seen 
the leadership of eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-three 
Governors of Iowa. In her lifetime the population of the United States 
has more than tripled.
  I congratulate Louise Johnson for reaching this milestone of a 
birthday. I am extremely honored to represent Louise in Congress and I 
wish her happiness and health in her future years.

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