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CHESTER G. COLE, SR.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed· to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Chester G. Cole, Sr., begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Chester G. Cole, Sr., was born October 4, 1890, on a farm near South Owego, Tioga County, New York. He attended public school at Greeley, Iowa, and Dr. Holbrook’s School at Ossining, New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, in June, 1916.

He married Katrine Ione Smith at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on December 31, 1923. To this union were born two sons, Chester G. Cole, Jr., and Thomas H. Cole.

Mr. Cole, enlisted in the Navy and was aboard the U.S.S. Aurore. He returned to Greeley where he was actively interested in Delaware County Land. Mr. Cole was president of the Delaware Savings Bank, a member of the board of directors of the Security Savings Bank at Greeley, and treasurer of the Delaware County Farm Bureau.

Mr. Cole was an examiner with the Insurance Department of Iowa for twenty-five years and had been an examiner with the Insurance Department of Florida for ten years before his illness.

Mr. Cole was a past grand commander of Knights Templar in Iowa, past deputy grand master of Masons in Iowa, and was a fifty-five-year member of the Elks. Mr. Cole was a fifty-year member of New Century Lodge 656, Corinthian Chapter 14, Nazareth Commandery, Alpha Council I and Za-Ga­ Zig Shrine. He was also a member of Des Moines Consistory, where he was a thirty-third degree Mason. He was a member of numerous other honorary Masonic organizations including the Legion of Honor of DeMolay, and Red Cross Constantine of which he was a charter member. He was a member of First Methodist Church, Des Moines, Iowa.

Mr. Cole, a Republican, served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Forty-first, Forty-second and the Forty-second Extra Sessions of the General Assembly as the Representative of Delaware County, and in the Forty-third and Forty-fourth General Assembly as a Senator.

Mr. Cole passed away August 12, 1968. Surviving him are his widow, Katrine of Des Moines, and two sons, Chester G. Cole, Jr., Des Moines, and Thomas H. Cole, Encino, California; a sister, Mrs. Helen Downey of Foster, Rhode Island, and two grandchildren.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Chester G. Cole, Sr. the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

KENNETH L. PARKER, Chairman

LESLIE C. KLINK

ANDREW G. FROMMELT

Committee

The resolution was unanimously adopted.