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HONORABLE WILLIAM OLDENBURG
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public services of the Honorable William Oldenburg, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:
William Oldenburg died at Rock Rapids, Iowa, July 13, 1937 at the age of 74 years.
He was born in Davenport, Iowa, September 18, 1863. Educated in the public schools of the county, he later took a business course in Duncan Business College. In 1891, he married Miss Meta Kuelper, of Scott county. To this union were born five children, Mrs. Malinda Wohlers, Mrs. Stella Schnepf, Mrs. Esther Schnepf, Mrs. Amanda Schemmel, and Wilbur Oldenburg.
In 1915 Mr. and Mrs. Oldenburg retired from the farm and moved to Rock Rapids, Iowa. For many years he served as secretary of the German Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Company, besides doing a general insurance business. He served Lyon county in the State Legislature during the Thirty-sixth General Assembly in 1915.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-eighth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable William Oldenburg, 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.
J. T. DYKHOUSE,
M. D. VAN OOSTERHOUT,
W. A. YAGER,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.