[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 158 (Tuesday, September 25, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1301]
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                     TRIBUTE TO MARY HELEN PETERSON

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 25, 2018

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Mary Helen Peterson of Red Oak, Iowa on the occasion of 
her 100th birthday. Mary Helen celebrated her birthday on August 24, 
2018.
  Our world has changed a great deal during the course of Mary Helen'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. Mary Helen 
has lived through eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-five 
Governors of Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States 
has more than tripled.
  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent Mary Helen in the United 
States Congress and it is my pleasure to wish her a very happy 100th 
birthday. I ask that my colleagues in the United States House of 
Representatives join me in congratulating Mary Helen on reaching this 
incredible milestone, and wishing her even more health and happiness in 
the years to come.

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