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Memorial to the Honorable Ben B. Doran of Boone County
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Ben B. Doran, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Ben B. Doran was born at Beaver on the 24th day of March, 1884, and passed away in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at Lincoln, Nebraska, on November 22, 1950, at the age of 66 years. He was one of 13 children born to Justin R. and Olive F. Doran. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Beaver High School and attended the law school at the State University of Iowa for one year, following which he returned to his home at Beaver and carried on his farming operations and livestock feedings. In 1918, he enlisted in the Coast Artillery Corps of the United States Army and was discharged with the rank of sergeant, after which he returned to his farming operations at Beaver. On the 6th day of June, 1923, Mr. Doran was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Harker of Grand Junction. To this union were born six children, Justin C., of Beaver; Tom and Jim of Boone; Beverly, now Mrs. Pat Healy, of Des Moines; Marilyn, now Mrs. Robert Leonard, of Iowa City, and Virginia Doran of Boone.
In 1932, Mr. Doran was elected State Representative and served in the Forty-fifth, Forty-fifth Extra, Forty-sixth and Forty-sixth Extra sessions of the Iowa Legislature. For the past four years he was a member of the state fair board, which position he held at the time of his death. He was always interested in education and the advancement of agriculture and livestock production, but his primary interest was always his family.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftyfourth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Ben B. Doran, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen and the House expresses its appreciation of his character and public service and tenders, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to the surviving members of his family; 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 forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
C. N. NYSTROM,
H. H. STEVENS,
G. T. KUESTER,
Committee.