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TUNIS H. KLEIN
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Tunis H. Klein, begs leave to submit the following:
Mr. Tunis H. Klein, an esteemed lifelong resident of Pella, Iowa, was born March 14, 1888, one of the five children of Antonie T. and Jennie Akkerman Klein. He passed on to his eternal reward February 21, 1965, at the age of 76.
He was united in marriage December 3, 1913, with Jessie M. Forsyth of Humboldt, Iowa. Surviving are Mrs. Klein and two children, Donald F. and Mrs. John H. (Bonnie) Smith, now both of Rock Valley, Iowa, five grandchildren and two sisters.
Tunis H. Klein was a graduate of the University of Iowa and Drake University Law School in 1913 and practiced law in Pella, Iowa, for fifty years, during which time he was a member of the Iowa State Bar Association.
He was a member of the Second Reformed Church and the Masonic Lodge.
He served with honor and distinction in the Iowa Senate in the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-second Extraordinary General Assemblies—1945 and 1947—and as mayor of Pella for nine consecutive years from 1949 to 1958.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa: That in passing of the Honorable Tunis H. Klein, the state has lost a valued public servant and honored citizen and by this resolution tenders its sympathy and best wishes to Mrs. Klein and members of the family.
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 instructed to forward an enrolled copy of this resolution to Mrs. Klein, and his son and daughter.
STANLEY M. HEABERLIN, Chairman,
J. HENRY LUCKEN,
JOHN A. WALKER,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.