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George Marchant Clearman

Johnson County

GEORGE M. CLEARMAN

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late George M. Clearman, begs leave to submit the following:

The Honorable George M. Clearman, son of Albert and Sarah Ives Clearman, was born on October 5, 1870, on a farm in Johnson County, Iowa and lived his entire life within a mile of his birthplace. He passed away on November 5, 1955, at the age of 85 years.

On December 13, 1892, Mr. Clearman was united in marriage to Miss Essie Summerhays at Oxford, Iowa. She passed away in 1902. On August 25, 1907, he was married to Miss Grace Duty who also preceded him in death.

Mr. Clearman served two full terms in the Iowa State Senate, from 1925 through 1933, representing the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District consisting of Iowa and Johnson Counties. He was a member of the church vestry of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Iowa City for over thirty years, a member of the board of the Mary O. Coldren Home in Iowa City, a member of the Masonic Lodge at Oxford for fifty-eight years, a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Kaaba Shrine at Davenport, a member of the Palestine Commandery and Consistory in Iowa City and the order of Eastern Star at Oxford.

Mr. Clearman is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Stella Swanson of Oxford, Iowa, and two sons, Ray Clearman of Des Moines, Iowa, and Harold A. Clearman of Oxford, Iowa.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable George M. Clearman 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.

D. C. NOLAN,

GEORGE E. O’MALLEY,

DAVID O. SHAFF,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

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