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OSCAR E. JOHNSON
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Oscar E. Johnson, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Oscar E. Johnson was born at Dayton, Iowa, on March 22, 1894. He passed away while on vacation near Cloquet, Minnesota, on August 24, 1968.
Mr. Johnson attended schools in Dayton, Iowa, graduating in 1912. He also attended Highland Park Pharmacy School in Des Moines and graduated in 1915.
He married Nora Nelson on December 29, 1927, and to them were born sons, James and William.
Mr. Johnson was a member of the Iowa Board of Pharmacy Examiners and was Honorary President of the National Board of Pharmacy. He was a member of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association for fifty years. He had served on the Board of Directors of the Hancock Memorial Hospital since its founding. He was on the Board of Directors of the Farmers State Bank, Kanawha, Iowa, and of the Northwestern Drug Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mr. Johnson served as mayor of Kanawha for twelve years. He was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in the Forty-sixth, Forty-sixth Extra, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth General Assemblies. He also served as a member of the Iowa Senate in the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth General Assemblies. He served in World War I as an Army Medical Corpsman.
He was a member of the Kanawha Lutheran Church, the Masonic Lodge, and the Shrine in Des Moines.
He is survived by his wife, Nora, Kanawha, Iowa; two sons, James, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and William of Belmond, Iowa; a brother, Bill, of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and five grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Oscar E. Johnson, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the Senate 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 Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
HERBERT L. OLLENBURG, Chairman
LEIGH R. CURRAN
WAYNE KEITH
Committee
The resolution was unanimously adopted.