[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6054]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO JOEL IRWIN WOLFF

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 12, 2003

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Joel Irwin Wolff who will be 
named Pioneer of the Year by Grays Harbor County, Washington on March 
23, 2003.
  Joel Wolff's father came to the United States from Germany and 
established Wolff's Department Store in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1897. 
Joel Wolff was born on September 26, 1908, and has spent his entire 
life in Grays Harbor County.
  Joel Irwin Wolff has been the devoted husband of Ruth Kauffman Wolff 
for 65 years and he is the proud father of Susan Desmond of Portland, 
Oregon, and George Wolff of Hillsborough, California.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring a true 
pioneer and a great American, Joel Irwin Wolff.

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