[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 7, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E586]
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                              DOLLY TRAVIS

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                           HON. ED PERLMUTTER

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 7, 2022

  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Dolly 
Anderson Travis of Lakewood, Colorado who will turn 100 years old on 
June 18, 2022.
  Dolly Anderson Travis was born June 18, 1922 in Hazleton, 
Pennsylvania. Dolly's great-grandparents immigrated from Austria and 
Slovakia. Dolly's parents having only a grade school education valued 
education as a means to success in the United States and made it a 
priority for both her and her brother, Jan. When Dolly was 11 or so, 
her parents paid for a few piano lessons which they felt would provide 
a creative outlet for her and her brother. They both quickly discovered 
a prodigious talent for music. Within a year, Dolly and Jan were 
playing instrumental accompaniment for singers on Hazleton's radio 
station WAZL and at other public events. While at Julliard in the early 
1940s, Dolly was recruited to participate in numerous musical and 
entertainment events sponsored by the United Service Organization, 
started in 1941 to entertain soldiers, sailors and airmen departing for 
oversees deployment during WWII. She subsequently played in many swing-
era bands in New York City, where she played the piano, accordion, 
guitar and saxophone.
  Dolly married a sailor from Brooklyn, New York in the early 1950s and 
moved to Denver, where she fell in love with the mountains and the 
great outdoors. She was fond of western, cowboy music and culture, and 
started a family in Thornton, a Denver suburb, where her son Mark and 
daughter June would grow up.
  Dolly loves to shop for unique items and collectibles from the many 
indoor malls that dot the Denver landscape. Villa Italia mall in 
Lakewood, a suburb of Denver, was one of her favorites, offering a 
large variety of merchandise at so many price points. She particularly 
enjoyed the grilled cheese sandwiches that Woolworth offered in their 
restaurants in the early days of the mall and throughout their Denver 
locations. She enjoyed taking her children to the Sinclair dinosaur 
exhibit in Villa Italia's parking lot, featuring lifelike recreations 
of dinosaurs which Sinclair would host in Denver and other cities 
during the 1960s.
  Dolly still plays the piano, walks without assistance, and is 
addicted to blueberry and cherry pies. Dolly has an unfinished concerto 
she's been composing for years, loves reading the funnies, and enjoys 
perusing tabloids and gossip magazines while hanging out at the local 
Starbucks.
  Celebrating 100 years of age is a tremendous milestone and should be 
celebrated. It is my privilege to wish Dolly a very happy birthday and 
wish her all the best in the future.

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