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HONORABLE FRANKLIN PIERCE MOWERY
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of the Honorable Franklin Pierce Mowery, a member of the Thirty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:
Franklin Pierce Mowery was born in Jefferson county, Iowa, June 29, 1853, and passed away at his home Tuesday morning, September 1, 1936, at 4:55 a. m. at the age of 83 years, 2 months and 4 days, being the first one summoned to break the immediate family circle.
On October 11, 1879, Mr. Mowery was united in marriage with Miss Cora E. Kirby of near Packwood, Iowa. To this union were born five children: Gaylord, Paul, Carrie, Earl, and Blanche, who together with his wife and three grandchildren Junior Linder, Max Mowery and Jean Kreigh survive him.
Mr. Mowery attended local schools and then entered Exline college at Fairfield, Iowa. He taught school for a number of years, then resumed farming on the home place where he spent his entire life except two and one-half years spent in Fairfield, Iowa, and Des Moines, Iowa.
Surviving him are two brothers, James of Abingdon, Iowa, and Virgel of Los Angeles California, besides a wide circle of relatives and friends.
He was an active member of the Abingdon Masonic Lodge No. 104 for 62 years consecutively and was always alert in promoting the welfare of his community.
He never lacked the highest esteem in the community he bettered by having lived in it during his entire life. Always thoughtful, always serious minded, always with an eye focused for the promotion of the common welfare and through all his years no one ever doubted his sincerity of purpose nor the genuinity of the integrity he always displayed.
Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable Franklin Pierce Mowery, 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 the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
CHARLES W. NELSON,
J. P. GALLAGHER,
F. A. LATCHAW,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.