[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 46 (Thursday, March 15, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E323-E324]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO BILL PAVKOV

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 15, 2018

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Bill Pavkov of Hastings, Iowa for his dedicated service to 
our country in World War II and the Korean War. Bill turned 90 in 2017 
and has the rare distinction of serving his country in two wars.
  Bill was born and raised in Doylestown, Ohio. He left school in the 
l0th grade to join the U.S. Army Transport Service in 1944. He was only 
17 years old and his father had to give his permission in order for 
Bill to serve. Bill was aboard Army Transport ships that delivered both 
troops and supplies around the world. After his service to our country, 
Bill returned to Ohio, married and began his career as an over-the-road 
semi-truck driver. In 1960, Bill and his family moved to Iowa where he 
started farming and continued driving trucks. He served his community 
as a volunteer firefighter and as Mayor of Hastings. When Bill

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retired in the 1990s he had logged 52 years as a truck driver and 30 
years as a farmer.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend and congratulate Bill for his many years of 
dedicated and devoted service to the United States of America, his 
family, and his community. It is with great honor that I recognize him 
today. I ask that my colleagues in the United States House of 
Representatives join me in applauding his service as a veteran and in 
wishing him and his family nothing but the best.

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