[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 62 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E571]
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                   TRIBUTE TO LEONE DIERENFIELD PETTY

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 21, 2016

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Mrs. Leone Dierenfield Petty for celebrating her 100th 
birthday on April 12, 2016.
  Mrs. Petty was born on a small farm south of Wall Lake, Iowa along 
with her twin sister, Leola. Life was off to a slow start, weighing in 
at 2\1/2\ pounds at birth. She tells the story that she was so tiny, a 
coffee cup would fit over her head. But she survived and prospered in 
the Iowa countryside. She was later joined by several brothers and 
sisters. She went on to raise a family of six, which now includes a 
number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. All of them attest to 
her wonderful meals as a farm wife, noting that there is nothing much 
better than her homemade bread.
  Our world has changed a great deal during the course of Mrs. Petty's 
life. We have revolutionized air travel and walked on the moon. We have 
invented the television, cellular phones and the Internet. We have 
fought in wars overseas, seen the rise and fall of Soviet communism and 
witnessed the birth of new democracies. Mrs. Petty has lived through 
seventeen United States Presidents and twenty-four Governors of Iowa. 
In her lifetime, the population of the United States has more than 
tripled.
  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent Mrs. Petty in the United 
States Congress and it is my pleasure to wish her a very happy 100th 
birthday with family and friends. I invite my colleagues in the United 
States House of Representatives to join me in congratulating Mrs. Petty 
on reaching this incredible milestone, wishing her even more health and 
happiness in the years to come.

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