Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor a real life Rosie the Riveter. Mrs. Esther Tint. on her 100th birthday. Five years before women gained the right to vote. Mrs. Tint was born in Scranton. Pennsylvania on April 23. 1915 to immigrants Rosa Misefera Gaetano and Frank Gaetano. The Gaetanos were a hardworking family. raising their children in modest circumstances amidst the coal mines in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Mrs. Tint recalls her father carrying home large sacks of flour. from which her mother would craft the bread that largely sustained the family. Following a brief early marriage that produced daughter Phyllis Aisenstein.
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