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J. LEROY DRAKE
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable J. LeRoy Drake, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
J. LeRoy Drake, son of Samuel R. and Margaret Jane Raymond Drake, was born September 2, 1892, at Dixon, in Scott County, Iowa, and died at Pella, in Marion County, Iowa, January 20, 1965, at the age of 72 years.
He was educated in the high school at Columbus Junction, where he started his long career in banking by working as a part-time bank employee of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank.
Mr. Drake served continuously in the banking field, with the exception of his tours of duty with the armed forces during World Wars I and II. In 1946 he became affiliated with the Pella National Bank as Executive Vice President, later served as President and Chairman of the Board and at the time of death, a member of the board. He served as a special bank examiner and was a member of the Iowa Bankers Association. He was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Pella Lodge No. 55, A.F. & A.M., Kaaba Shrine of Davenport, and the Pela Van Veen-Van Hemert Legion Post No. 89.
Surviving Mr. Drake is his widow, the former Frances Lee Chacey of Richland, Iowa.
Mr. Drake, a Democrat, served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Forty-fourth session, as a representative of Keokuk County.
Therefore, Be It resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable J. LeRoy Drake the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
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.
KEITH H. DUNTON,
ARMOUR BOOT,
ELDON M. MORGAN,
Committee.