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HAROLD V. LEVIS
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Harold V. Levis, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Harold V. Levis was born June 25, 1896 in Allerton, Iowa, and was 78 years of age at the time of death on April 13, 1974.
He attended the University of Iowa and graduated from the Drake University Law School.
Mr. Levis was a teacher at Valley Junction (now West Des Moines), served as Lucas County attorney and then as a State Senator in 1937 and 1939, the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth General Assemblies, representing Lucas and Wayne Counties. In 1941, he was named district judge and retired in 1964.
His wife, Louise, preceded him in death and he is survived by two sons, Dr. Robert Levis of Los Angeles, California and Dr. James Levis of Mason City, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Harold V. Levis, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his services to his community, state and nation and tender its sympathy and kindest regards to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
BASS VAN GILST, Chairman
EUGENE M. HILL
RICHARD R. RAMSEY
Committee
The resolution was unanimously adopted.