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GEORGE H. KEENEY
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable George H. Keeney, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
George H. Keeney was born March 15, 1880, in Carlisle, Iowa. He passed away March 23, 1969. He was the son of Benjamin Kessler and Martha Randleman Keeney.
He graduated from Carlisle High School in 1901; the liberal arts college of Drake University in 1906; and Drake University school of medicine, 1908. He interned at Iowa Methodist Hospital, Des Moines, and did postgraduate work at Harvard University. Also, he was a coach and instructor at Central College, Pella, Iowa, 1909-1910.
He married Alice Maude Webster in 1909. To this union two daughters were born: Mrs. Marguerite Johnson, Los Angeles, California, and Mrs. Ruth Marsh, Beltsville, Maryland.
Dr. Keeney practiced medicine in Mallard, Iowa, for 57 years. He also had farms in Palo Alto and Emmet counties. Dr. Keeney was president of the Mallard school board for 37 years, and was a member of the county board of education for 24 years. A former president of the Upper Des Moines Medical Society, he was chosen Iowa’s outstanding physician by the Iowa Medical Society in 1960. He was a fifty-year member of the Masonic Lodge, and was a member of the Church of Christ. He retired in 1966 and moved to Los Angeles to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Marguerite Johnson.
Dr. Keeney, a Democrat, served as State Representative from Palo Alto County in the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth sessions of the General Assembly of Iowa.
Surviving Dr. Keeney are his two daughters, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable George H. Keeney the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
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.
LEO I. SANDERS
JAMES I. MIDDLESWART
LESTER M. FREEMAN
Committee