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CURTIS L. MCKINNON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Curtis L. McKinnon, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Curtis L. McKinnon was born in New London, Iowa, October 10, 1889, the son of Emma (Morrow) and John Q. McKinnon. He died at his home in Los Angeles, California, August 19, 1957.
Mr. McKinnon married Emma Meade of Morning Sun and they had two children, a son Ralph and a daughter Muriel.
Mr. McKinnon was educated in the public schools of Henry County. He farmed south of New London on the Lowell road and had other business interests.
Mr. McKinnon served in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth General Assemblies of the State of Iowa. He was a Democrat. While serving his second term, Governor Clyde L. Herring appointed him to the Highway Commission which he later served as chairman. His term expired in 1939.
He then became a salesman for road machinery and continued in this business and lived in New London. Due to his wife’s health they moved to Arizona in 1944. Remaining there for two years, they moved to California in 1946.
Surviving him are his widow, his son Ralph and daughter, Mrs. Muriel Pohlman, also five grandchildren, all living in California.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Curtis L. McKinnon 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.
CHARLES F. STROTHMAN,
LAMAR FOSTER,
FLOYD H. MILLEN,
Committee.