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I. J. BURK
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the Honorable I. J. Burk, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
I. J. Burk, son of Joshua and Amanda Burk, was born on a farm in Greene county, Iowa, on May 1, 1877, and passed away at his home in Rippey on October 20, 1944. Mr. Burk received his education at the Washington High School.
On February 16, 1896, he was united in marriage to Hattie May Underwood, who survives him, and to this union were born two boys, Lyle S., President of the Liberty National Bank of Chicago, and I. J. Burk, Jr., manager of the Burk Auto Company in Rippey, both of whom survive their father.
The Burk family resided on the farm until 1906, when they moved into Rippey, where Mr. Burk entered the implement and automobile business, although he continued to be a farm owner and was interested in farming problems. Mr. Burk was also director and Vice-President of the Rippey National Bank, until he and several other stockholders sold their interest, just preceding his death. He was a member of the Methodist Church at Rippey, a member of the Masonic Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star and Modern Woodmen.
Mr. Burk served his state and community well and took an active part in public affairs, was a loyal Republican and active in the affairs of his party. He served in the State Legislature during the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fiftieth Extra Sessions. He lived a long, honorable and active life and will be greatly missed in his community.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-first General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable I. J. Burk, the state has lost a valued and honored citizen and the family a loving husband and father and the House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow; and,
Bt 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 send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
HENRY H. STEVENS,
G. E. WHITEHEAD,
C. G. GOOD,
Committee.
Unanimously adopted,