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DAVID BRITTAIN
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable David Brittain begs leave to submit the following memorial:
David Brittain was born in Madison County, March 27, 1871, a son of Alfred C. and Julia Brittain. He passed away in Des Moines on November 27, 1958, at the age of eighty-seven years.
Mr. Brittain was educated in the Winterset schools and graduated from the Madison County Normal Institute and attended Leander Clark College at Toledo, Iowa. He was married on April 4, 1900, to Sarah E. Thompson. They were parents of five children, three of whom died in infancy. The wife and mother died in 1940.
Mr. Brittain was a prominent Madison county farmer and a member of a pioneer family in that county. He followed the vocation of farming.
David Brittain, a Republican, served in the Fortieth, Fortieth Extra, and Forty-first General Assemblies.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Waltz of Perry, Iowa, and Mrs. Harry Wilson of Chariton, Iowa; also, several nephews, a brother, Robert Brittain of Winterset, and two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftyeighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable David Brittain the people of Madison county and the entire state of Iowa have lost an honored citizen and the House, by this resolution, would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its heartfelt sympathy to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
JOSPEPH B. FLATT,
DON G. ALLEN. JR.,
CARL HIRSCH,
Committee.