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WILLIAM R. RITCHIE
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life and public service of the late Honorable W. R. Ritchie, submits the following report:
William R. Ritchie was born at Port Andrew, Richland County, Wisconsin, July 8, 1867, of Scotch-Irish parents, and died in Storm Lake, Iowa, on March 8, 1954. In 1884 he came to Alta, Iowa, and in the spring of 1894 bought his first farm and began farming for himself. On February 26, 1896, he was united in marriage to Anna Jackson of Sac County, Iowa. To this union were born four children, Florence V. Robert C., Wendell R., and Donald S. He was a widely known, successful auctioneer of northwest Iowa. He was past master of Universal Lodge, 587, A.F. and A.M.
Mr. Ritchie served the Fiftieth district, comprised of Humboldt, Pocahontas, and Buena Vista Counties in the Iowa Senate during the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-fifth Extra sessions.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Ritchie, the state has lost one who has always been very active in public affairs and kept interested and well informed on political matters, and the Senate tenders by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow.
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.
GUY G. BUTLER,
DUANE E. DEWEL,
ALAN VEST,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.