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HONORABLE JOHN M. BIXLER
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life, character and public services of the late Honorable John M. Bixler, of Adams, county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:
John M. Bixler was born on a farm near Brooks, Adams county, Iowa, December 23, 1867. He grew up at the farm home, attended public country school, and began teaching in country schools when quite young. He attended Western Normal School at Shenandoah, and was graduated from Highland Park College, Des Moines, in 1891. That fall he was elected county superintendent of schools of Adams county, was re-elected and served four years. He then removed to the farm which continued to be his home until the time of his death, which occurred on May 26, 1936. Mr. Bixler was united in marriage on March 13, 1892, to Miss Fannie L. Day, who with six children, Fern, Marjorie, Mary, Carl, Neal and Blanche, mourn the death of their beloved husband and father.
In politics, Mr. Bixler was a republican and served as journal clerk of the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-sixth Extra General Assemblies, and as representative from Adams county in the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-second Extra, and Forty-third General Assemblies. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and of a community church. He was at all times a perfect gentleman, genial, kindhearted, and devoted to his family and friends.
Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable John Bixler, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and
Be It Further Resolved, That a cpoy of this resolution be spread upon the House Journal, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
THOS. HENDRICKSON,
LEONARD L. MOORE,
J. P. GALLAGHER,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.