[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 47 (Monday, March 19, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E337-E338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           IN HONOR OF THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF POLLY MILLHOUSER

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 19, 2018

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the House's attention 
to recognize the 100th birthday of Polly Millhouser.

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  Polly was born March 22, 1918, in Waukegan, Illinois. In 1937, at the 
age of 19, she threw caution to the wind and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii 
with a friend, working as a secretary for the U.S. Navy at Pearl 
Harbor. Shortly after the tragic attack of 1941, she met Charles, a 
U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, when he stopped by her office one day; she 
caught his eye and by way of introduction he threw a paper clip in her 
direction. They married in Honolulu in 1943.
  After the war Polly and Charles moved to his hometown of Evanston, 
Illinois, where their children Mary (Latta), Jean and Robert were born. 
Later they lived in Arlington Heights, Illinois, where Polly was a 
homemaker and school volunteer. Polly and Charles retired to Mountain 
Home, Arkansas in 1987 where she quickly became active in the 
community, volunteering at the elementary school and the Mountain Home 
library. Charles passed away in October 1990 at 71 years of age.
  She loved listening to the first-graders practice reading, and she 
spent many happy hours shelving books at the library, working at the 
library book sales and hosting/attending Friends of the Library 
meetings. She was honored for her years of service to the library when 
Baxter County proclaimed April 25, 2009 as Polly Millhouser Day. Polly 
is a member and former Deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Mountain Home, Arkansas.
  Polly stayed active as a member of a casual walking group of friends 
who for years walked a 3-mile loop at a local park three times a week. 
She finally quit putting up her own storm windows when she turned 93. 
By her grandson David and Amy (Downs) Latta, she has two amazing great-
grandchildren, Hannah and Jack.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in wishing Mrs. Millhouser a very happy 
100th birthday.

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