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KENNETH A. EVANS
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Kenneth A. Evans, begs leave to submit the following:
Kenneth A. Evans was born at Emerson, Iowa, November 9, 1898, and died at Red Oak, Iowa, December 11, 1970. He attended the Emerson public schools, St. James School at Faribault, Minnesota, Mercersburg Academy at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, all Masonic bodies, Shrine and American Legion. He was a Director of the Central Life Assurance Company for several years. He was a member of the town council at Emerson for ten years and served as chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Mills County for two years.
He was a member of the Iowa Senate in the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fiftieth Extra General Assemblies, elected Lieutenant Governor in 1944 and reelected in 1946 and 1948.
He was engaged in the operation and management of farms in Iowa. He was married to Elsie B. Sharp, who preceded him in death. He is survived by three children, Robert L. Evans, Davenport, Iowa; Rosalie Belt, Red Oak, Iowa; Commander Arnold A. Evans, serving in the Navy, and eleven grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of the State of Iowa: That, in the passing of the Honorable Kenneth A. Evans, 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.
EARL G. BASS, Chairman
JAMES E. BRILES
JAMES F. SCHABEN
Committee
The resolution was unanimously adopted.