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GEORGE M. LUDWIG, radio farm commentator, former newspaper columnist, public school administrator, minister and state legislator, died at Iowa City, Iowa, November 13, 1959; born near Stevens in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1896, the son of George S. and Emma Anne (Renniger) Ludwig; graduated from Ephrata high school, attended Mount Union College in Ohio one year, graduated from Westmar College, LeMars, Iowa, obtained a masters degree from Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and took further graduate work at Ohio State University and at the University of Iowa in 1928 and 1958-59; spent eight years in the active ministry after ordination in the Evangelical United Brethren Church at Columbus, Ohio in 1915; married Alice G. Heim of Dawson, Nebraska, June 22, 1923; served 5 years as superintendent of schools at Sharon, Iowa, 1 year at Oxford and 16 years at Tiffin, moving to Ludwigheim, his farm near there, in 1930; wrote a farm column for the Iowa City Press-Citizen for eight years and had been farm editor and commentator for radio station KXIC in Iowa City since 1948; a Republican in politics, was elected Johnson County representative in the Iowa legislature in 1950 and re-elected in 1952; survived by his wife, three daughters, Phyllis J. Ludwig, Redbird Mission, Beverly, Kentucky, Mrs. Genevieve Merck, Deep River, Iowa, Mrs. Nona L. Walker, Iowa City, and two sons, George H. and Robert L. Ludwig of Iowa City; another son, Dean, died August 16, 1951.