Representative Everett Lloyd Stewart View All Years

EVERETT L. STEWART

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Everett L. Stewart, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Everett L. Stewart was born in Washington County, Iowa, February 9, 1885, on the same farm where he died June 23, 1951. His home had always been on this farm where his father and uncle cleared the land after the Civil War.

He received his early education in the rural school and was graduated from Washington Academy, attended Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, for one year and graduated from the Iowa State College at Ames in the class of 1909. For several years after his graduation he was with the Extension Service of the college during the winter months judging corn at their institutes and traveling with the “corn train.”

He was united in marriage March 15, 1913, at Des Moines, Iowa, to Jessie M. White and to this union were born four daughters, who are now Mrs. T. E. Tuttle, Mrs. Lewis Williams, Mrs. David Scott, and Mrs. W. F. Monnier. These daughters and his wife survive him.

Mr. Stewart was a member of the Washington United Presbyterian Church, where he had been very active in the work of the congregation. He taught the Men’s Bible Class and for 24 years was an elder in this church and was serving as a member of the board of trustees at the time of his death. He was chairman of the special building committee that directed extensive remodeling of the church’s interior.

From 1934 to 1942 Mr. Stewart served as Washington County’s Representative in the General Assembly. In politics he was a Republican. He was past president of the Washington County Farm Bureau and had been a leader of the Jackson 4-H Boys’ Club. For several years he was president of the Co-operative Shipping Association. He was a member of the County Board of Education in Washington County from the time of its organization until his death. In January, 1929, he was awarded the master farmer medal.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Everett L. Stewart, 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 his beloved family in their great sorrow and loss.

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.

HARRY W. RAMSEYER,

W. C. HENDRIX,

A. L. MENSING,

Committee.