[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 8, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





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                         REMEMBERING MAINI WOOD

  (Mr. MILLER of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of Ohio. Madam Speaker, I rise today in memory of a great 
Ohioan, Maini Wood, who recently passed away at her York Township 
homestead.
  Maini lived an incredible life. She was born in Finland in 1930 and 
survived the Russo-Finnish War of 1939 and 1940.
  As a young girl, she actually had to ski to school, wearing white 
robes to hide from the Russian bombers that flew overhead.
  Maini immigrated to the United States in her early 20s, but she met 
her husband, Dee, aboard a ship during a visit to her native Finland. 
The couple eventually settled in York Township where they raised their 
children in what they described as--and I happen to agree with them--a 
beautiful, idyllic rural community.
  We learned so much from Maini about survival, about taking chances, 
and about finding joy in life's simple pleasures.
  Ohio and America are less with her loss.
  My thoughts and prayers are with Maini's family as they grieve the 
loss of this amazing woman.

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