[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 156 (Thursday, December 2, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2049]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             IN RECOGNITION OF DOROTHY ANITA NEWHOUSE SMITH

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, December 2, 2010

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I would like to request the 
House's attention today to pay recognition to Dorothy Anita Newhouse 
Smith who will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 27th.
  Ms. Smith was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to the late Grace and Boudin 
Newhouse, immigrants from Holland. In 1917, before World War I, her 
family bought a farm in Brecksville, Ohio and she spent her childhood 
raising vegetables for their truck farming operation and graduating as 
Salutatorian of her high school class. She began working at Union 
Carbide where she met her husband Charles Smith of Alabama.
  Dot and Charles eloped on May 27, 1939. In 1942, they had their first 
child, Charlie, and in 1945, Cheryl. In 1946, they moved to Union 
Springs, Alabama. Dot devoted her life to her husband and children and 
served as a volunteer for PTA, Union Spring Elementary School room 
mother, Boy and Girl Scout leader, Sunday School teacher and Civil Air 
Patrol leader after the war ended.
  Her husband died at the age of 74, and Ms. Smith eventually moved in 
with her daughter and son-in-law, Cheryl and Jim Cunningham, in 
Franklin, Alabama. She lived there until 2001 when she moved to Monarch 
Estates in Auburn.
  Ms. Smith has lived through wars, the Great Depression and seen so 
many historic events as they have taken place. Her son, Charlie, and 
grandson, Todd, passed away years ago. Her daughter Cheryl, her 
granddaughters, Leigh Reed and Heather Hodges and her six great-
grandchildren, Casey and Tyler Ellison, Trey and Anne Carter Reed and 
Michael and Hunter Hodges, visit regularly and still enjoy her stories 
of growing up in Ohio and the family stories of relatives in Holland.
  I wish Ms. Smith a very happy birthday and many more.

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