Representative William W. Koch View All Years

HONORABLE WILLIAM KOCH

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorationg the life, character and public services of the Honorable William Koch, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

William Koch was born October 17, 1886, on a farm near Tripoli, Iowa, the son of L. C. and Wilhelmina Duesing Koch, and he passed away at his home in Los Angeles, California, on April 7, 1941, and his funeral was held in St. Paul’s Lutheran church, at Waverly, Iowa, with burial in Harlington Cemetery on Saturday, April 12, 1941.

Mr. Koch was the youngest of twelve children and attended the rural schools near his home and graduated from the commercial course at Wartburg College. After working as a teller in the Readlyn Savings Bank and in the general merchandising business at Readlyn and at Aredale, Iowa, he came to Waverly, Iowa, where he entered the grocery business and later became a partner in the Waverly Publishing Company and then a partner in the insurance and real estate business with F. W. Smith.

On November 5, 1908, he was united in marriage to Wilhelmina Diekman, which union was blessed with one son, Kenneth, who will graduate from the college of dentistry of the University of California. He is also survived by his widow, and three brothers, John C. of Tripoli, Fred C. of Waverly and Herman of Grand Junction, Colorado.

He has always beeen a staunch Democrat and represented Bremer county by serving as a member of the House of Representatives in the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-fifth Extraordinary sessions of the General Assembly of Iowa. No citizen of his community was held in higher regard. He was beloved by his friends and neighbors.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-ninth General Assembly, That, in the passing of the Honorable William Koch, the state has lost a valued and honored citizen and the family a loving husband and father and the House would tender, by this Resolution, its sincere sympthy to the surviving widow and son in their sorrow; and

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 send an enrolled copy to the wife and son of the deceased.

J. F. GARDNER,

HENRY W. BURMA,

ARCH W. MCFARLANE,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 10, 1941.