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HENRY H. REITZ
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Henry H. Reitz, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Henry H. Reitz, Representative from Lee county, was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 6, 1854. His parents were born in Germany. He attended school in his home city until his father’s family came to Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1867. In 1868 they moved to Franklin, Lee county, where he worked on a farm in the summer months and attended high school in the winter.
He was married in 1876 to Matilda Vornkahl of Primrose, Iowa. He had a family of six children, three girls and three boys. He had been a member of the school board for twenty years and had held various township offices. He was elected Representative in 1906 and re-elected in 1908. In politics he was a Democrat.
Mr. Reitz passed away on September 17, 1944, at a hospital in Iowa City, at the age of 89 years, 10 months and 11 days.
Surviving are two sons, Oliver Reitz of Ewing, Missouri, and Edwin Reitz of Donnellson; one daughter, Mrs. Will Sass of Iowa City; twentyeight grandchildren, a number of great-grandchildren and a host of friends.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftyfirst General Assembly, That in the passing of the late Honorable Henry H. Reitz, the State has lost a valued and honorable citizen, and the House of the Fifty-first General Assembly tenders, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving relatives.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk·be directed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
THOMAS W. WELLINGTON,
WILSON REED,
O.C. WILLIAMS,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted,