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HONORABLE E. O. HELGASON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life and services of the late Honorable E. O. Helgason of Armstrong, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:
Honorable E. O. Helgason was born in Mason City, Iowa, on November 7, 1872, and died of a heart attack at his home in Armstrong, Iowa, March 21, 1932. At the age of seven, he, with his parents moved on a farm in Senaca township, Kossuth county, and thereafter has always lived in Iowa except for three years he spent in Louisiana. He attended the district school and completed a course in a business college and later attended the Iowa State College at Ames for two years, afterward teaching school for two years.
In 1900 he was united in matrimony to Mary Jenson and to this union were born five children, two sons, Lloyd and Lorenzo, who reside on farms near Armstrong and three daughters, Ione, Viola and Marietta, all of Armstrong.
Mr. Helgason was interested in public affairs for many years, having served as road superintendent, township trustee and clerk, Director of Armstrong Consolidated School eleven years, and president of it for eight years.
He served as republican committeeman and was elected·to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives from Emmet county upon the death of Representative R. B. Crone in the Forty-second extra session. In 1928 he was re-elected to the Forty-third and in 1930 he was again re-elected to the Forty-fourth General Assembly.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fortyfifth General Assembly, That in the death of E. O. Helgason the state has lost a public spirited citizen and a man of high ideals. That the House of Representatives take this occasion to express its appreciation of his life and work and extend to his family sincere sympathy in their bereavement.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House and enrolled copies thereof be sent to the surviving members of the family.
E. J. MANIECE,
W. H. STRACHAN,
H. N. HANSON,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted April 11, 1933.