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AI GRAY MILLER
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to prepare a suitable memorial commemorating the life and public service of the late Honorable Ai Gray Miller, begs leave to submit the following report:
Born February 4, 1885, on a farm near Gray, Audubon County, Iowa, where he lived during his lifetime. He passed away at his home on February 26, 1950, at the age of 65 years.
He attended rural schools and married Stella Fancher in 1907. There were four children born to this union: Frank of Detroit, Michigan; Lieutenant Colonel Marion Ai with the U. S. Air Forces; Jessie Yvonne now Mrs. Dallas Himelright of Winchester, Va., and Dora Adelaide of Des Moines, Iowa.
He was a charter member of the Audubon County Farm Bureau; past director Audubon County Soil Conservation and Improvement association; past member of the Audubon County Planning Committee; member of the Audubon County Board of Supervisors seven years; president of the school board twelve years and member of Audubon County Board of Education; secretary of Farmers Mutual Telephone Company for twenty-three years and president for six years. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
He was a Republican in politics and was elected to the Senate in 1940 and re-elected in 1944 fom the Seventeenth Senatorial District composed of Audubon, Dallas and Guthrie Counties.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Ai Gray Miller, the people of his community, the counties he represented, and the state he served, all recognize the loss of a respected and beloved citizen.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the members of the family of the deceased.
G. E. WHITEHEAD,
LORIN B. SAYRE,
E. C. MYRLAND,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.