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WILLIAM SCHMEDIKA
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life and public service of the late Honorable William Schmedika, submits the following report:
William Schmedika was born in Shellsburg, Wisconsin, on August 19, 1869, and died a resident of Hardin County on June 3, 1951. In 1875 his parents moved to Hardin County, Iowa, settling in the western part of the county. His early boyhood days were spent on the farm and attending the rural school. Later he attended the Dexter Normal School at Dexter, Iowa. He lived on the farm all of his life, for years farming in the summer and teaching school in the winter. Later he quit teaching and farmed extensively, together with buying, feeding and shipping livestock. Also a heavy writer of fire insurance, being with the Farmers of Cedar Rapids thirty years. In 1889 he was united in marriage with Clara Awe. To them were born two boys and two girls. His wife died in 1907. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge.
He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1914, and in 1923 was elected Senator to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the Honorable D. C. Chase. Senator Schmedika maintained an active interest in public affairs throughout his life and was always well informed on political matters and was very active at all political elections.
His survivors are his two sons, Dale Schmedika of Jewell, Iowa, and Roy Schmedika of Alden, Iowa, and his two daughters, Vera Schmedika Benson of Radcliffe, Iowa, and Leta Schmedika Johnson of Radcliffe, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable William Schmedika, the state has lost one who has always been very active in public affairs and kept interested and well informed on political matters, and the Senate tenders by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the members of the family of the deceased.
R. R. BATESON,
W. ELDON WALTER,
J. G. LUCAS,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.