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THOMAS W. WELLINGTON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Thomas W. Wellington, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Thomas W. Wellington was born January 29, 1875, and passed away July 28, 1955, at the age of eighty years.
As a small child he moved with his family to Fort Madison.
On January 2, 1894, he was married to Pearl Hazelton, who preceded him in death.
Mr. Wellington retired as a railway clerk in 1936, after thirty-three years of service. He helped form the Fort Madison Savings and Loan Association and served for several years as its president, and also as a member of the board of directors.
He was active in Masonic orders and a member of the Red Cross. He was a Past Grand Master of Iowa Masons.
He was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, serving in the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fiftieth Extra, Fifty-first and Fifty-second sessions of the General Assembly.
Surviving Mr. Wellington is a son, Leo E. of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Also surviving are two brothers, Melvin of Fort Scott, Kansas; Ward of Mapleton, Kansas; one sister, Mrs. Vida Spratt of Independence, Missouri; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by two daughters, Miss Maude Wellington and Mrs. Hazel Yeager.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftyseventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Thomas W. Wellington the people of Lee County and the entire State of Iowa have sustained a great loss, and the House expresses its appreciation of his character and public service and tenders, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy in their sorrow.
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.
W. S. EICHENLAUB,
ROBERT R. DODDS,
T. O. NUTT,
Committee.