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GLEN CURTIS
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Glen Curtis, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Glen Curtis was born February 8, 1893, in Cherokee County. He was the son of M. H. and Josephine G. Curtis. Until retiring in 1955, he had lived his entire life on the same farm. His educational training was received in the rural schools of the county, high school at Cherokee, Iowa, and college at the University of Oregon.
On May 28, 1913, he was married to Bessie Hagen in Cherokee, who preceded him in death in May, 1960, and to whom were born four children.
Mr. Curtis was active in community affairs, being chairman of Pilot Township School Board for many years, chairman of the Cherokee County Corn-Hog Control Association in its initial year of operation, president of the Pilot-Rock Plowing Match Association, served on the REA Board and at one time was in charge of the AAA office in Cherokee. For many years he had also served as assessor in the county.
Mr. Curtis, a Democrat, served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Forty-sixth, Forty-sixth Extra and Forty-seventh sessions of the General Assembly as the Representative of Cherokee County.
He passed away December 28, 1968, at Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Surviving Mr. Curtis are his widow, Helen, whom he married June 8, 1962; two sons, William Curtis of Albert City, Iowa, and Dale Curtis of Balboa, Panama; two daughters, Mrs. Erick Johnson of Cherokee, Iowa, and Mrs. Richard Worthley of Cheyenne, Wyoming. He is also survived by eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Glen Curtis, 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.
HAROLD V. NELSON
J. WESLEY GRAHAM
WALTER P. KRUSE
Committee