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HONORABLE WILLIAM O. COAST
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare a resolution commemorating the life, character and public services of the late Honorable William O. Coast of Johnson county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:
William Oscar Coast was born August 5, 1880, in Iowa City, Iowa and died there on February 28, 1937. His parents were William Philip Coast and Mary Ellen Coast, who were pioneers of the state of Iowa. Mr. Coast attended Iowa City schools and the Michigan Military Academy. He attended the State University of Iowa in 1902. On October 24, 1904, he was married to Miss Maud C. Kingsbury. To this union were born two daughters. Mr. Coast was major of the University Cadets in 1900 and 1901; president of the Iowa City Commercial Club in 1913 and 1915; and a member of the State-Wide Publicity Commission of the Associated Advertising Clubs of Iowa in 1914. He served in the Thirty-sixth General Assembly as state representative.
Mr. Coast took an active part in civic and educational affairs. He served on the board in Control of Athletics at the State University of Iowa, and was active in promoting measures for the development of the Children’s Hospital and the College of Commerce of the University. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Board of Curators of the State Historical Society of Iowa, on which board he had served for seventeen years. As a public servant, Mr. Coast was actuated only by a sense of duty to the trust that was committed to him. His death has left a gap in his community that is not likely to be soon filled. He served his community and his state, and served them well. Iowa has lost a valuable citizen.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh General Assembly, That the state has lost a valued and beloved citizen, and the House of Representatives would tender, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their sorrow.
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 forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
LEROY S. MERCER,
J. P. GALLAGHER,
J. E. CRAVEN,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.