[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 8, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E290]
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          IN HONOR OF THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF BEE SWADER MALONE

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 8, 2017

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the House's attention 
today to recognize the birthday of Bee Swader Malone. She will turn 100 
on March 30th.
  Jessie Beatrice Swader Malone was born on March 30, 1917 in the Pine 
Grove community on Sand Mountain in DeKalb County, Alabama. Born to 
Robert and Addie Swader, she grew up on her parents' farm and attended 
school in nearby High Point and Valley Head, graduating from Valley 
Head High School in 1937.
  Bee was working at J.C. Penney when she first met Marvin E. Malone, 
Jr., who worked in the shoe department there. They married and settled 
in Fort Payne, Alabama where Marvin worked for Southland Sox, Inc. They 
had three daughters: Kay, Ann, and Susan; and three grandchildren: 
Shannon, Oliver, and Halle; and now Bee is the great-grandmother of two 
girls: LizaBanks and Bea.
  Bee and Marvin ran Malone Mills, a hosiery finishing mill in Fort 
Payne, for many years. First Presbyterian Church in Fort Payne honored 
her with a life membership for her active role there over many decades. 
Bee is still known in the church and far beyond for her excellent 
cooking, gardening, sewing, and handwork. She has voted in every single 
presidential election since she turned the legal voting age, which was 
then 21, and she was profiled in the Times-Journal last November for 
being one of the oldest registered voters in DeKalb County.
  Bee still lives on her own today, in her house of almost 57 years on 
a hill overlooking Fort Payne. This month Bee will be celebrating her 
100th birthday with a gathering of family and friends. Please join me 
in wishing this centenarian a very happy birthday.

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