[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 198 (Friday, December 1, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H6063]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                CELEBRATING RUTH SELLERS' 100TH BIRTHDAY

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to wish a happy 100th birthday to 
Ruth Sellers of Mariposa, although the general consensus is she is 
really in her midfifties. Skeptical or not, the town is going to 
celebrate with her tomorrow. From our Nation's Capital, I want to join 
them to express our love and respect.
  An Army brat, she spent her youth in prewar China and the 
Philippines. In the war, when she wasn't Rosie the Riveter at the 
Newport shipyard, she was a USO volunteer, where she met her husband, 
Earl.
  After a successful career at IBM, she retired to Mariposa in 1986 and 
has since been a terrifyingly inexhaustible force of nature in so many 
community endeavors it would take an hour to catalog.
  She will be celebrating many more birthdays in the year ahead, and 
Mariposa will be better for it.
  Happy birthday, Ruth.

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