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PHILLIP F. ROAN, lawyer, soldier and legislator, died February 22, 1947, at Fort Madison, Iowa; born in Linn county, Missouri in 1895; removed with his parents to Iowa one year later; educated in the Fort Madison schools, the University of Michigan, and a graduate of the University of Detroit law school, where he was also awarded a master’s degree; served in France with French army in 1916 and 1917, and the American army tank corps, company A, 2nd battalion in 1918 and 1919; married Elinor Smith of Scranton, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1928, who survives as do also two children, Francis and Rosaline; served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, 1935-1939; and at the time of death was a member of the board of supervisors of Lee county, Iowa, and of the American bar association, the American Legion and the Catholic church.