[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1390]
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                      TRIBUTE TO COLLETTA GILLETT

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 19, 2017

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Colletta Gillett of Clarinda, Iowa on the occasion of her 
103rd birthday. Colletta was born on November 11, 1914.
  Our world has changed a great deal during the course of Colletta's 
life. Since her birth, 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. Colletta 
has lived through eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-two 
Governors of Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States 
has more than tripled.
  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent Colletta in the United 
States Congress and it is my pleasure to wish her a very happy 103rd 
birthday. I ask that my colleagues in the United States House of 
Representatives join me in congratulating her on reaching this 
incredible milestone, and in wishing her nothing but the best.

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