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ROY B. HAWKINS
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Roy B. Hawkins, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Roy Baker Hawkins, son of John A. and Delia Hawkins, was born May 6, 1885, in Des Moines, Iowa, and passed away at the Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines on February 11, 1969.
He was united in marriage to Evangeline Keister in 1912. To this union were born two children. His wife, Evangeline, and his son, Roger, passed away in 1935.
In 1939 Mr.·Hawkins married Georgia Doolin Netherton of Gallatin, Missouri.
Graduating from Drake University in 1910 with a juris doctor degree, Mr. Hawkins devoted several years to farming and farm investments.
In 1924 he was elected to the office of county attorney and served Decatur County in that capacity for two terms.
Since that time he has been in private law practice in Leon, where he remained active until retirement in 1968.
Mr. Hawkins was a member of Odd Fellows, a fifty-year member of Masons and past president of Leon Rotary Club. He was also a fifty-year member of the Iowa Bar Association and served as one of the first lawyer members of the Third Judicial District Judges selection committee.
Mr. Hawkins was a Republican State Representative in the Fiftieth and Fiftieth Extra sessions and served as a Senator in the Fifty-first, Fiftysecond and Fifty-second Extra sessions of the General Assembly.
Surviving Mr. Hawkins are his widow, one daughter, Mrs. Helen Gowdy of Elkhart; Indiana, an adopted daughter, Jennifer at home and one sister, Mrs. W. H. Hamner of Des Moines.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixtythird General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Roy B. Hawkins the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this resolution would express the 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.
HOMER L.·WARREN
DEWEY E. GOODE
PERRY L. CHRISTENSEN
Committee