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HONORABLE OTTO A. HELMING
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the Honorable Otto A. Helming, of Allamakee county, beg leave to submit the following report:
Otto A. Helming was born March 9, 1868, on the farm home in Ludlow township, Allamakee county. He attended the rural schools near his home and for two winters he attended the business college in Waukon.
On November 12, 1902, he was married to Miss Lena Wittenberger of Richfield, Wis. Two daughters were born to them.
Mr. Helming’s chief occupation was farming. For six consecutive years he was township assessor. He was one of the promoters of the Ludlow Co-operative Creamery which he served as vice president, and later as president for a number of years. For several years he acted as president of the Allamakee County Fair Association. In 1913, he was elected by the Republican party as state representative from his county to the Thirty-fifth General Assembly. Again in 1914 and in 1916, he was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh General Assemblies. In 1930, he was appointed to take the federal census of Ludlow township.
For the past twenty-two years of his life, Mr. Helming suffered from rheumatism which crippled him to the state of invalidism. In the fall of 1935, he sustained a paralytic stroke and complications which eventually caused his demise on August 2, 1936.
The fullness of this lifetime has been shared with us and it has left us with a feeling of gratitude. In his departure we know an irreplaceable loss.
Therefore Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable Otto A. Helming, 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.
OVE T. ROE,
JOE FLYNN,
OTTO FUELLING,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.