[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 87 (Friday, May 19, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E681]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO MILDRED HARMON

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 19, 2017

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Mildred Harmon of Windsor Heights, Iowa, on the special 
occasion of celebrating her 105th birthday on May 4th, 2017.
  It was 1912 when Mildred entered this world on a farm near St. 
Charles, Iowa. It was a world much different than ours today. In an 
October 2013 interview with Iowa Living Magazines, Mildred recounted 
how she started school at the age of four at a country school, walking 
1.25 miles round trip each day. That gave her more than enough exercise 
for her lifetime, she said. She graduated from high school, and then 
beauty school and became a hairstylist. She married Paris Harmon on 
December 20, 1936, starting a family that would go on to include three 
daughters, 10 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Mildred's 
husband passed away in 2006, however she continues to be that strong 
and loving influence that her family relies on. Iowa Living Magazine 
discovered that her key to a long and happy life was humor, which she 
said was ``the only way to get through life.''
  Mr. Speaker, I am honored to represent Mildred in the United States 
Congress and I'm proud to recognize her today on this momentous 
occasion. I ask that my colleagues in the United States House of 
Representatives join me in congratulating her and in wishing her 
nothing but continued happiness.

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