Representative Seth A. Randell View All Years

HONORABLE SETH A. RANDELL

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare a resolution commemorating the life, character and public services of the late Honorable Seth A. Randell of Mahaska county, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:

Seth A. Randell was born October 6, 1871, in Cedar Township, Mahaska county, and died August 22, 1938 at his home near Wright, Iowa, where he lived all his life. His father, Chas. D. Randell came from Ohio in an early day, and his mother, Sarah Moore Randell, was from a family of pioneers in Iowa. Mr. Randell went through the public schools and attended Penn College and the Oskaloosa Business College. He chose farming as his life’s occupation and was successful in this occupation which he followed his entire life. He served as a republican member of the House of Representatives in the Forty-seventh General Assembly. He leaves to mourn his death, his widow, Ella Randell of Wright, Iowa, a son, George Randell, three daughters, Mrs. Pearl Ross of Albia, Iowa, Mrs. Anna Winn of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Mrs. Clara Jewell of Kersey, Colorado, three sisters, Mrs. D. E. Gwin and Mrs. O. J. Fox of Cedar and Mrs. T. W. Gullick of Wright. Mr. Randell always took a special pride in community activities and will be greatly missed as he was the type of citizen whom we all will remember with pride.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty­eighth General Assembly, That the state has lost a valued and beloved citizen, and the House of Representatives would tender, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their sorrow.

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.

F. E. HYETT,

W. G. WOOD,

EARL C. FISHBAUGH, JR.,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.