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FRED C. STIFFLER
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Fred C. Stiffler, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Fred C. Stiffler was born June 26, 1875, on a farm in Warren county, and passed away June 16, 1958, at the age of eighty-three.
He was educated in the Norwalk schools. He spent his entire life in and around Norwalk except for four years which he spent in Kansas. Mr. Stiffler was engaged in farming and livestock buying. He bought cattle for a packing company for four years.
Mr. Stiffler served thirty-five years as a member of the Norwalk school board, was a member of the Warren county board of supervisors, and a member of the Norwalk town council.
Mr. Stiffler served as auditor for the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association for nineteen years. He was a member of the Farm Bureau. Mr. Stiffler was a member of the Methodist church.
Mr. Stiffler served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth sessions of the General Assembly.
Besides Mrs. Stiffler, he is survived by six children, twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Fred C. Stiffler, the people of Warren county and the entire state of Iowa have lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant, and the House, by this resolution, would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sincere and heartfelt 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.
CARL HIRSCH,
HOWARD C. REPPERT, JR.,
JOSEPH B. FLATT,
Committee.