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T. F. DRISCOLL
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life and services of the late Honorable T. F. Driscoll, Senator from the First District, Lee county, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following report:
Timothy Francis Driscoll was born November 18, 1896, of Irish parentage, at Belfast, Iowa, and passed away in Des Moines on February 23, 1937, while a member of the Senate of the Forty-seventh General Assembly.
Mr. Driscoll was educated in the grade schools, and graduated from the High School of Farmington, Iowa. Spending his entire life in Lee county, he was highly successful in farming and stock raising, and was active in banking, and the production of stone products.
On February 22, 1922, he was united in marriage with Margaret Rita Burke of Argyle, Iowa, and to this union were born nine children, six daughters and three sons, all of whom survive him. Mr. Driscoll was a World War Veteran, a member of St. Boniface Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus, American Legion, the Elks Lodge, and the Moose.
He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1934, and was completing his first term when death overtook this highly esteemed and dearly beloved public servant.
Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Forty-seventh General Assembly: That in the passing of the late Honorable T. F. Driscoll, the state has lost an honorable and valuable citizen, a man of high ideals in Christian living and faithful, useful citizenship.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and an enrolled copy sent to the surviving members of his family.
STANLEY L. HART,
WM. S. BEARDSLEY,
H. L. IRWIN,
E. I. MASON,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.