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Frank Pelzer

Cass County

FRANK PELZER

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Frank Pelzer of Marne, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:

Frank Pelzer was the son of Henry and Sophia Wolenhaus Pelzer, and was born January 27, 1876, in Noble township, Cass county, near Griswold, Iowa, and grew to manhood in that vicinity. He was married there June 20, 1900, to Mary Louise Borth and the couple farmed in Noble township until 1909 when they purchased the home three miles north of Marne, at which place he died suddenly August 28, 1944, as the result of a heart attack. He is survived by his widow, six sons and one daughter.

Mr. Pelzer was a member of the Cass county board of supervisors for six years, and the board of education ten years; a member of the Methodist church and the Masonic Lodge. He was a farmer, stockman and breeder of purebred hogs for forty-two years, specializing in Shorthorn cattle and Spotted Poland China hogs.

Mr. Pelzer represented the eighteenth senatorial district, composed of Cass and Shelby counties, in the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth General Assemblies. He was a capable, conscientious and honest citizen and his death is a great loss to the citizens of his state and his community. His unswerving loyalty to his country, his fidelity to duty, and his faithfulness to every public and private trust, was an inspiration to all with whom he came in contact.

Therefore Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of Senator Pelzer the state mourns the loss of an honored citizen, a man of strong and excellent character, a public servant of the highest type, and that by this resolution the Senate of Iowa extends its sympathy to his family.

Be It Further Resolved, That this resolution be spread upon the records of the Journal of the Senate of the Fifty-first General Assembly of Iowa, and that enrolled copies thereof be transmitted to the members of his family.

ED. S. WHITE,

DE VERE WATSON,

AI MILLER,

RALPH E. BENSON,

O. N. HULTMAN,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

Senate District 18