Representative Grant A. Shifflett View All Years

GRANT A. SHIFFLETT

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

Grant A. Shifflett was born December 12, 1890, on a farm in Bureau County, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Hamilton County, Iowa, residing there just one year and then moving to Madison County, Iowa, where he received his early education in the rural schools. He was graduated from Earlham High School, attended Coe College and graduated from the Cedar Rapids Business College.

In 1914, he married Mary L. Compton of Earlham, Iowa, and together they established their home on a farm in Ringgold County. To this union, one daughter was born.

Mr. Shifflett spent most of his life operating the farm in Ringgold County with the exception of about twelve years when he was engaged in the banking industry in Tingley, Diagonal and Mount Ayr, Iowa. He had been retired the past few years. He was an active member of the Methodist Church and the Methodist Men's Organization.

Mr. Shifflett, a Republican, served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Forty-sixth, Forty-sixth Extra, Forty-seventh, Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth sessions of the General Assembly as representative of Ringgold County.

Death came to Mr. Shifflett on January 7, 1969, and he is survived by his widow, Mary, one daughter, Mrs. John (Martha) Waters, and two grandchildren, all of Atlantic, Iowa. A sister, Mrs. Charles Henry of Des Moines, also survives.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Grant A. Shifflett, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful 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.

ELDON L. STROBURG

PERRY L. CHRISTENSEN

LESTER L. KLUEVER

Committee