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STEPHEN RAY EMERSON
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life and public service of the late Honorable Stephen Ray Emerson, submits the following report:
Stephen Ray Emerson, building contractor and legislator, was born in Union County, Iowa, February 25, 1889, son of Lincoln Jasper and Verna Shaw Emerson, and grandson of the Reverend Stephen and Mary Peek Emerson of Union County, and died at Creston, Iowa, August 1, 1953, at the age of 64 years.
He was graduated from Creston High School in 1908 and from Central College at Pella in 1910. He was married to Meta F. Raney of Marengo, Iowa at Fairfield, Iowa, October 13, 1913, who survives him with three daughters, Mrs. Gail Brown, Mrs. Joseph G. Knock and Mrs. Jane James, all of Creston.
He was engaged in building contracting for 27 years with his brother, Donald Emerson, at Creston; was president of the State Savings Bank of Creston a number of years and chairman of its board of directors at the time of his death.
He served in two sessions of the Iowa Senate from the Fifth Senatorial District, two years as president of the Master Builders Association of Iowa, two terms as a member of the Iowa Highway Commission, two terms on the Creston School Board, eight years as the Mayor of Creston and as a delegate from Iowa to the National Republican Convention at Cleveland in 1916.
He was a member of the Congregational Church, the Rotary Club, the Elks and the Masonic Order.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Stephen Ray Emerson, the state has lost an able and honored citizen and the Senate tenders by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family, and
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this memorial resolution be printed in the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary be directed to send an enrolled copy to the members of the family of the deceased.
X. T. PRENTIS,
THOMAS C. LARSON,
JOHN D. SHOEMAN,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.