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PERRY C. HOLDOEGEL
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Perry C. Holdoegel of Rockwell City, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:
Perry C. Holdoegel was born in Harrison county, Iowa, September 7, 1869. In the early nineties he was elected superintendent of the Manson school and later went to Rockwell City to assume the superintendency of the city school.
Before coming to Calhoun county he built the first independent telephone line in Iowa between Woodbine and Logan. In 1903 he was instrumental in establishing the Central Mutual Telephone Company of Rockwell City. He became president of the Independent Telephone Association of the United States
Mr. Holdoegel became a director in each of the three banks in Rockwell City, and later negotiated the consolidation of these three banks into what is now the Union State Bank of which he was chairman of the board. He was an extensive land owner in Calhoun county.
He was an active member of the Methodist church. He had a membership in all the Masonic lodges including the Za-Ga-Zig in which he prized his membership. In politics he was a Republican, and took an active and responsible place in the party of his choice. He was elected from the twenty-seventh district to the state senate and continued to serve through the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Fortieth Extraordinary sessions.
He is survived by his wife, Mattie, and daughter, Dorothy, both living in the home in Rockwell City; also a son, Donald, an attorney, living in Des Moines.
If this were prepared as a eulogy instead of a simple biographical sketch designed to commemorate his service in this body, there are many things that could be said with propriety.
Senator Holdoegel had been in failing health for several months, and finally passed away at his home in Rockwell City, July 30, 1940, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fiftieth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Perry C. Holdoegel of Rockwell City, Iowa, the state has lost a valuable and. honorable citizen, an earnest statesman, and the family, a loving husband and father, and
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the members of the family of the deceased.
C. V. FINDLAY,
RALPH E. BENSON,
A. J. SHAW,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.