[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9643]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                  TRIBUTE TO McDERMOTT AND SON ROOFING

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, June 15, 2015

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate the McDermott and Son Roofing Company of Atlantic, Iowa, 
which is celebrating 80 years in business. McDermott and Son Roofing is 
a four-generation, family-owned business that has been operating in 
southwest Iowa since 1935.
  Ted McDermott, the first owner of the business could be described as 
the ``classic entrepreneur.'' Mr. McDermott farmed, worked 
construction, and when he realized there was a need in the community, 
he founded the roofing company. Today, McDermott and Son Roofing 
Company is owned and operated by his great-grandson, Rob Clausen, and 
his wife, Sonya. The business is a Master Elite Contractor for Duro 
Last Roofing products, and they are the recipient of the highest 
quality award given by Duro Last Roofing. Over the past 80 years, the 
company has experienced many changes within the roofing industry and 
with roofing products used. McDermott and Son Roofing takes great pride 
in the customer services they provide to the Atlantic area and 
southwest Iowa. The business cherishes the many friends and customers 
they have served for the past 80 years.
  I commend McDermott and Son Roofing and their staff for their 80 
years of dedicated service to southwest Iowa. I urge my colleagues in 
the House to join me in congratulating McDermott and Son Roofing for 
their many achievements in the roofing industry. I wish them and all of 
their employees nothing but success moving forward.

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