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HONORABLE O. K. MABEN
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the Honorable O. K. Maben, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:
O. K. Maben was born in Garner, Iowa, March 12th, 1868, and spent virtually all of his 70 years in this vicinity. After attending the rural schools, he attended the Breckenridge Normal Academy at Decorah for several terms and afterwards became a student in the Northern Iowa Business College of Garner, from which he graduated in 1890.
He then took up farming, and was identified with this occupation until 1900 when he became allied with the insurance business.
He was elected as director of the Hancock County Farmers Mutual Insurance Association and was chosen secretary. He later served as treasurer and then secretary, the position he held at the time of his death. He was a director and vice president of the Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Company of Des Moines, and president of the Allied Mutual Auto Insurance Association.
He was interested in politics and served as a representative from Hancock county in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-second Extra Sessions of the Iowa Legislature.
Mr. O. K. Maben was united in marriage with Miss Jennie B. Lewis, February 21, 1893, and to this union three sons were born: Clifford, Merle and Orville.
No citizen of his community was held in higher esteem. He was beloved by his friends and neighbors, and reared a family for whom he willingly and gladly made every sacrifice. In his passing the community in which he lived suffered a distinct loss and his place as a citizen and a public officer will be difficult to fill. He always stood for progress and improvement, for justice, truth and advancement, and the weight of his influence had been a potent force in the substantial development of our county and state. To the mind of the writer, the salvation of this nation is dependent upon citizens of the type and character of O. K. Maben.
Therefore, Be It Resolved, by the House of Representatives of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable O. K Maben, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
OSCAR E. JOHNSON,
H. M. KNUDSON,
J. G. ODDEN,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.