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CLARENCE FLOYD LETTS, retired farmer and former state representative, died at his home in Washington, Iowa, August 20, 1959; born on a pioneer family homestead north of Ainsworth December 14, 1877, the son of David Grove and Hannah Gale Dickinson Letts; attended rural schools, prep school and Parsons academy in Fairfield until 1896, and studied at Parsons College for two years; married August 9, 1898 to Zelma M. Sawyers, who died in 1953; owned and operated a grocery store in Ames from 1898 to 1903, and then was a clerk and salesman for the Martin Wholesale Grocer Company in Davenport prior to taking over the family homestead in Highland township, Washington County in 1907; specialized in raising hogs and stock feeding; was for several years a township trustee, member of the township school board, and also chairman of the Republican committee of Highland township for many years; served as president of the Washington County Farm Bureau from 1917 to 1919, and was a member of the committee on Liberty Loan drives during World War I; elected to the Iowa house of representatives for the 39th General Assembly from Washington County in 1920, re-elected to the 40th and 40th extra sessions in 1922; served on the county board of health in 1936, and the same year began twenty years service on the Washington County hospital board; had made his home in Washington, Iowa, since retiring about 1944; was a trustee of the First Presbyterian church for many years, president of the board, member of the Masons, Shrine, Knight Templars, and former Rotarian; survived by a daughter, Mary Gale of Washington, twin sons, Grove R. of Ainsworth and David S. of Washington, D.C., and a brother, the distinguished Judge Fred Dickinson Letts in Washington, D.C.