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HAROLD R. WHITE

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Harold R. White, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Harold R. White was born at South English, Iowa, May 27, 1889, son of Willard W. and Ida Ann Roach White.

Mr. White married Jessie Roop on May 12, 1910, and to this union was born two children, one boy and one girl.

Mr. White served as cashier at White State Bank until 1921, moved to Webster Savings Bank where he worked seven years, and joined the First Trust & Union Savings Bank in 1928, retiring in 1946. He also served as a bank director. He was a director of the REC from 1946 to 1964 and was a partner in the Harwood Angus Farm, north of Sigourney. Mr. White was the Mayor of Sigourney from January, 1954, to December 31, 1955. He was a Democrat and served as State Representative for one term in the Fifty-fourth General Assembly.

He passed away May 24, 1968, at his home. Services were held at the United Methodist Church in Sigourney, Iowa, and burial at Pleasant Grove Cemetery.

Surviving are his widow, Jessie; a son, Woodford W. White, of Blairstown, Iowa; two brothers, L. W. White of Escondido, California, and Virgil E. White of Santa Cruz, California, and five grandchildren. His daughter, Mary, preceded him in death.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Harold R. White, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of the 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.

KEITH H. DUNTON

DEWEY E. GOODE

GEORGE N. PIERSON

Committee