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HONORABLE C. ORVILLE LEE
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the late Honorable C. Orville Lee, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
C. Orville Lee was born in Sac City, Iowa, November 18, 1860. He received his education in common schools of the community and later attended Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. After graduating he taught school for several years.
When he attained the age of twenty-one his parents gave him 160 acres of prairie land which was the beginning of his ownership of some of the best improved land and farms in this section of the country.
In the year 1884 he was united in marriage to Cecelia Eugene Rogers. To this union were born two sons, LaVern and Ward, both of Sac City. In 1892, moving his family to Sac City, Mr. Lee purchased a grain elevator which he operated for nine years. Later he engaged in the real estate business and for many years was a successful auctioneer. He also was a licensed public surveyor.
On March 16, 1934, he and his family celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mr. Lee was one of Sac county’s leading citizens for more than half a century, always interested in community affairs, serving as city mayor, member of the school board, library board, and for many years a trustee of Sac City Institute.
He was a member of the Baptist church since 1894 and filled various church offices. He was a member of the local Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and Order of the Mystic Shrine, Abu Bekr Temple.
Allied with the Republican party, he served two terms in the State Legislature as Representative of Sac county, a member of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh General Assemblies, convening in 1915 and 1917.
He was preceded in death by Mrs. Lee who passed away November 5, 1936.
Two years ago Mr. Lee suffered a paralytic stroke to which he made sufficient recovery. Last October a second stroke indicated the inevitable and he passed away Monday evening, January 20, 1941, at his home on South 12th Street, Sac City, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-ninth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable C. Orville Lee, 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.
E. W. SCOTT,
MARX BOCKWOLDT,
FRANK O. HOCUM,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 3, 1941.