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ARTHUR STOOKESBERRY
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Arthur Stookesberry, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Arthur Stookesberry was born February 14, 1882, in Davis County, Iowa. He was the son of David and Hannah Watkins Stookesberry.
He was a graduate of the Southern Iowa Normal School of Bloomfield and a graduate of the Chillicothe Business College. He also attended Drake University. He taught 16 years in the public schools of Iowa and Oklahoma, and was an ordained minister of the Christian Church, serving in Iowa and Missouri.
He was elected clerk of the district court of Davis County in 1916 and re-elected in 1918. He served as mayor of Bloomfield for four years and was a justice of the peace for many years. During World War II he was a guard at the Iowa Ordnance Plant at Burlington.
He was a farmer, owning and operating his own farm for several years.
In 1924, Mr. Stookesberry was elected to the General Assembly and served in the Fortieth, Fortieth Extra and Forty-first sessions. He was a Democrat.
His first wife, Jennie Mae, passed away on October 16, 1947. He later married Lucy Ledbetter in 1949.
Mr. Stookesberry died November 1, 1962, at Davis County Hospital, Bloomfield, Iowa. He was 80 years old. Survivors at the time of his death included his widow, Lucy; a foster daughter, Mrs. Bernie Willier of Bloomfield; a foster son, J. Harlan Stookesberry of Richland, Washington; and seven grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixtieth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Arthur Stookesberry the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House 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 House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
DEWEY E. GOODE,
DELMONT MOFFITT,
FLOYD H. MILLEN,
Committee.