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LLOYD ELLIS
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Lloyd Ellis, begs leave to submit the following.
Lloyd Ellis was born on May 29, 1883, in Appanoose County, Iowa, where he spent most of his life. After attending the public schools there, he was graduated from the Divinity School of Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa, receiving both an A.B. and an A.M. degree.
He was united in marriage to Blanche McCoy, daughter of F. M. and Lyda McCoy. They adopted two daughters, Helen Virginia and Betty Jeanne.
Mr. Ellis was a minister of the Christian Church in Appanoose County, Chariton, Iowa and Fayetteville, Arkansas, receiving a forty year service pin. In later life, he moved to New Mexico where he remained active in the ministry.
In 1924, he was elected to the Iowa State Senate on the Democratic ticket and served there during the Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-second Extra General Assemblies. He was active in the American Legion and was a Knight Templar Mason, being a member of the Masonic Lodge for forty years.
Mr. Ellis passed away at Tularosa, New Mexico on May 18, 1958. He is survived by his wife, Blanche, of Tularosa, New Mexico and his two daughters, Mrs. Don J. (Helen Virginia) Wissler of Des Moines, Iowa and Mrs. Howard (Betty Jeanne) Johnson of Keokuk, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Lloyd Ellis the State of Iowa has lost a valuable and honorable citizen and by this resolution tenders its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of the family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution 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.
GENE L. HOFFMAN,
JAKE B. MINCKS,
NORVAL B. EVANS,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.