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IRA L. TURNER
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Ira L. Turner, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Ira L. Turner was born at Oakland, Iowa, October 18, 1882, and passed away at Malvern, Iowa, May 27, 1957.
On March 15, 1905, he married Allie M. Thomas. To this union five children were born: Orville F., Avoca, Iowa; Leafy Leader, Atlantic, Iowa; Mervin E., Malvern, Iowa; Max L., Elliott, Iowa, and Ned H., Malvern, Iowa.
Mr. Turner was educated in the rural schools and Capital City Commercial College.
He served two terms in the Iowa General Assembly as Representative from Mills county in the Fifty-second and Fifty-fifth sessions.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge, Order of the Eastern Star, Malvern Rotary Club of which he was a past president, and Methodist church. He was a trustee of the Hastings Methodist church for twenty years, and past Sunday school superintendent there. He was a member of Mills County Farm Bureau and past president. He was vice-president of Producers Live Stock Marketing Association at the time of his death.
Mr. Turner owned and operated a three hundred twenty acre farm north of Malvern and fed from one hundred to two hundred head of cattle each year.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fiftyeighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Ira L. Turner, the people of Mills 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 to his family 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.
ROSCOE E. GREENWOOD,
CONRAD OSSIAN,
PAUL M. WALTER,
Committee.