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HONORABLE OTTO STARZINGER
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public services of the late Honorable Otto Starzinger of Polk county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:
Otto Starzinger was born in Des Moines, Iowa, April 25, 1881. He was graduated from East High School in 1900 and from the Iowa State College at Ames in 1904. He was associated with the General Electric Company for several years and was general manager of the Hotel Northwestern from 1908 until the time of his death March 12, 1935.
He was a prominent athlete at East High School and also at Ames. He was a good scholar, holding degrees in both electrical and mechanical engineering. Being trustworthy and unselfish, he had a host of friends in all walks of life.
His widow, two brothers, Joseph and Vincent, of Des Moines, and three sisters, Mrs. Marion H. Morrison of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Guy W. Brundage of Auburn, California, and Mrs. J. J. Hollander of Des Moines, mourn the death of their beloved husband and brother.
In politics, Mr. Starzinger served as a republican representative from Polk county during the Thirty-seventh General Assembly. He was a member of the Pioneer Club, Des Moines Advertising Club, East Des Moines Club and Iowa Hotel Men’s Association.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-sixth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable Otto Starzinger, 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.
PAUL CUNNINGHAM,
E. A. ELLIOTT,
ARCH W. MCFARLANE,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 18, 1935.