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JOHN J. JENKINS

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

John J. Jenkins was born on a farm in Louisa County on November 2, 1879, son of Richard and Catherine Rees Jenkins. He received his education in the rural schools and graduated from Columbus Junction high school, and received a degree from the Agricultural department of Iowa State College in 1906.

On November 17, 1908, he was united in marriage to Elsie Getts, and to this union were born two sons and five daughters.

Mr. Jenkins spent his entire life on the farm in the raising of livestock and general farm management, and served as president of his local shipping association. He was a long-time elder of the Cotter United Presbyterian Church, and also a 55-year member of the Masonic order and the Shrine. He was president and director of the Louisa County Farm Bureau, a member of the Louisa County Fair Association for 20 years, active in the Iowa Shorthorn Breeders Association, and served on the Cotter School Board.

Mr. Jenkins, a Republican, served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth sessions of the General Assembly from Louisa County. He continued his interest in government and served as Louisa County Supervisor from 1940 until 1949.

Mr. Jenkins passed away March 31, 1971, at Washington County Hospital, Washington, Iowa. Services were held at Stacy-Lewis Funeral Home, Columbus Junction, Iowa, with burial at Columbus City Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Elsie; five daughters, Mrs. Herman Wagenknecht, Ainsworth, Mrs. Gerald Smith, Ogden, Mrs. E. W. Newman, Cedar Rapids, Mrs. E. O. Ehrhardt, Sun City, Arizona, and Mrs. Roy Woolsey, Kansas City, Missouri; two sons, Charles of Columbus Junction and Richard, Cedar Rapids; twenty grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable John J. Jenkins, the state has lost an honorable 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.

LLOYD F. SCHMEISER

CHARLES F. STROTHMAN

HERBERT L. CAMPBELL

Committee