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RAY O. GARBER

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Ray O. Garber, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Ray O. Garber was born on October 16, 1887, at Adair, Iowa, and passed away April 30, 1956, in Des Moines.

He attended public schools and was graduated from Adair High School. He attended the State University of Iowa, and was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1914 after having read law in an Adair office.

Mr. Garber began the practice of law in Adair and moved to Des Moines in 1930 to become a member of the firm of Clark, Byers, Hutchinson and Garber.

He served in World War I as a lieutenant in the United States Air Corps; was a past commander of Sedan Post of the American Legion in Adair; served as a member of the executive committee and chairman of the resolutions assignment committee of the national American Legion convention in 1935; was a member of the committee in the three previous conventions and for years was a member of other national Legion committees.

He became supreme chancellor of the order of Knights of Pythias from 1940 until 1942, and had served as Iowa grand chancellor in 1925; was general counsel for the Farmers Life Insurance Company of which he was a director; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1948.

Mr. Garber was a Representative from Adair County in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Fortieth Extra sessions of the General Assembly.

He is survived by his widow, who was the widow of Carl H. Cook of Glenwood, former Iowa Republican state chairman; a sister, Mrs. Wauneta Jones of Adair, and a brother, W. M. Garber of Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Garber’s first wife, Helen Graham of Atlantic, died in 1947.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Ray O. Garber, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its sympathy to his wife and 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.

EUGENE HALLING,

S. E. ROBINSON,

T. J. FREY,

Committee.