Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor Elsie Meloche. a resident of the 5th Congressional District of Florida. and a woman who has achieved a great deal in her long life. On July 19. 2005 Elsie Meloche will be 102. Mrs. Meloche was born in Leipzig. Germany but immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island on February 16. 1909. She moved with her family to Massachusetts shortly thereafter. making their home in Holyoke. Mrs. Meloche married Wilford B. Meloche and in 1972. moved to St. Petersburg. Florida where she made her home until 2003 and then moved to Arbor Trail in Inverness.
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