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GEORGE WESLEY SMITH
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable George Wesley Smith, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
George Wesley Smith was born January 24, 1868, near Ashland, Ohio, and passed away February 24, 1959, at Fort Dodge, Iowa, at the age of 91 years. At the time of his death he was a resident of Friendship Haven.
He married Effie Troutman of Blairstown, on January 30, 1890. To this union, four sons were born: Clarence E., Orlo H., Jesse, and Marvin W. The couple observed their sixty-eighth wedding anniversary in January, 1958.
The Smiths farmed near Paullina until their retirement in 1920.
Mr. Smith was elected state representative from O’Brien county in the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-second Extra, and Forty-third sessions of the General Assembly.
He served as mayor of Paullina, was a member of the Paullina school board, belonged to Fulton lodge, was a thirty-second degree Mason, and was an active member and trustee of the Paullina Methodist church.
Mr. Smith’s wife preceded him in death by less than four months, having passed away November 5, 1958. One son, Jesse, passed away in 1918.
Surviving him are three sons: Clarence E. and Orlo H. of Estherville, and Marvin W. of Paullina; fourteen grandchildren and forty-five greatgrandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftyeighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable George Wesley Smith the people of O’Brien county and the entire state of Iowa have sustained a great loss and the House expresses its appreciation of his character and public service and tenders, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their great sorrow and loss.
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.
ELMER H. DEN HERDER,
J. HENRY LUCKEN,
ARTHUR C. HANSON,
Committee.