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STANLEY E. PRALL
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Stanley Prall, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Stanley E. Prall was born February 13, 1905 on a farm in Palmyra township, Warren County, near the Middle River Friends community. He was the son of Nathan C. Prall and Nora Miller Prall.
He attended Union country school and graduated from Carlisle High School in 1923. He attended Simpson College two years and graduated from the University of Iowa with a law degree in 1928.
On May 31, 1933 he was married to Martha K. Mitchell, and to this union a son and daughter were born.
During his law practice in Indianola, he was city attorney and county attorney. In World War II, as Captain in the Military Government, he was in several European countries, including Germany, until 1945.
In 1946 he was appointed by Governor Blue to the district court, where he served the Fifth Judicial District for twenty years.
Judge Prall was a member of the Methodist Church, the American and Iowa State Bar Associations, the Lions Club, Odd Fellows Lodge and Warren Post 165, American Legion.
He was Warren County representative in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth sessions of the General Assembly. He died November 28, 1966 in Des Moines.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Kathleen Coe, Indianola; two grandchildren, Cindy and Mitchell; two brothers, Arthur Prall of Carlisle and Dwight Prall of Newton; and two sisters, Mrs. Luther Meloy of Sun City, Arizona, and Mrs. Carl Norlin of Kettle Falls, Washington.
His son, Edgar, was killed in an automobile accident July 12, 1962.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA: That in the passing of the Honorable Stanley E. Prall, 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.
JAMES I. MIDDLESWART,
A. L. MENSING,
ANDREW VARLEY,
Committee.