Representative Charles E. Malone View All Years

CHARLES E. MALONE

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Charles E. Malone of Atlantic, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:

Charles Edward Malone was born October 24, 1881, near Wiota, the son of B. F. and Rebecca Malone, and was reared on a farm in the Wiota vicinity. He was married in Atlantic, April 18, 1906, to Miss Edna Harris of that city and resided continuously near there until 1934 when the family moved to the residence at 701 East Ninth Street, Atlantic, from which place he died suddenly as the result of a heart attack on March 22, 1945.

Mr. Malone founded the Malone Seed Company, and for forty years prepared Cass county’s exhibit which won numerous blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair; he served as assistant superintendent of the Iowa Department of Agriculture at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, and was chosen by Dante Pierce, editor of the Iowa Homestead, to represent farmers in the middle west in Chicago in 1931 at the installation of new equipment of the C. R. I. & P. R. R.

Mr. Malone represented the eighteenth senatorial district, composed of Cass and Shelby counties, in the Forty-sixth General Assembly. He brought to the Senate the policies that had made him successful in private life; he commanded the respect of the other members of the body, and of his constituents, insisting that the high ideals and honesty of purpose that had made his private life a success should govern his actions in the services of the state. In 1936 he was appointed postmaster at Atlantic. He personally delivered letters from men overseas to relatives as soon as they were received at the office, whether at night or on holidays, and throughout his lifetime he was active in community and charitable enterprises. He was a member of the Atlantic B.P.O.E. Lodge, and the National Association of Postmasters. He is survived by his widow and two sons, Claude and Cecil, who operate the seed company which was founded by their father.

Therefore Be It Further Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of Senator Malone, the state mourns the loss of a valuable and honored citizen; a man who devoted many years of his life to public service, and the Senate of Iowa by this resolution extends to the family its deepest sympathy.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this memorial resolution be printed in the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary be directed to send enrolled copies to the members of the family of the deceased.

ED. S. WHITE,

H. S. LOVE,

RALPH E. BENSON,

A. D. CLEM,

AI MILLER,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.