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HONORING VIRGINIA LODMELL
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HON. ANDY BARR
of kentucky
in the house of representatives
Friday, August 5, 2022
Mr. BARR. Madam Speaker, I rise to honor the life of a patriotic American, Mrs. Virginia Mae Hudson Lodmell, on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Mrs. Lodmell lives in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Mrs. Lodmell was born in southern West Virginia on August 17, 1922. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley and attended Beckley College. Wanting to support America's war effort when World War II started, she went to work in an ammunition plant in Maryland. On December 18, 1943, she enlisted in the WAVES. Following basic training in New York, Mrs. Lodmell was assigned to Norman, Oklahoma, as an Aviation Mechanist Mate where she worked as an airplane mechanic. She also taught classes on radar. She was discharged on November 2, 1945, as a 3rd Class Petty Officer.
Following the war, she married Russell Carl Lodmell. They lived on a farm in Minnesota for several years then returned to West Virginia. She worked at a Montgomery Ward's store until her retirement. Mrs. Lodmell has three sons, John, Joe, and Jim; nine grandchildren; and 27 great-
grandchildren. She is a member of the United Methodist Church in Versailles.
It is my honor to recognize Mrs. Lodmell, celebrate her 100th birthday and thank her for her service and sacrifice to our Nation during World War II. As a part of the Greatest Generation, Mrs. Lodmell and her fellow soldiers were a part of the war effort to preserve the freedoms that we enjoy today, and we can never thank them enough. I am forever grateful for Americans like Virginia Lodmell.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 132(1), Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 132(2)
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