Representative Alexander Stanley Bloedel View All Years

A. S. BLOEDEL

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

A. S. Bloedel was born in Papillion, Nebraska, on May 8, 1876, the son of Andrew and Caroline Bloedel. He attended the rural schools of Nebraska and moved to Iowa in 1893.

At one time he was employed by the A. C. Veith Hardware Store in Oakland, Iowa, but established the A. S. Bloedel Company in Tabor in 1902. This business observed its fiftieth anniversary in March of 1952, and he continued in its operation until the time of his death.

He was married in 1904 to Sarah Weatherhead, and to this union were born five daughters and two sons.

Mr. Bloedel was a former Mayor of Tabor. He was a director of the First State Bank of Tabor, a former president of the Tabor Northern Railroad, and for fifteen years served as a trustee of Tabor College. He was active in the Tabor Community Club, was a fifty-year Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Congregational Church. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives from Fremont County and served in the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth sessions of the General Assembly.

Mr. Bloedel passed away on Saturday, September 10, 1955, at the Hamburg Hospital, Hamburg, Iowa, after an illness of several months. He is survived by his widow, and children: Mrs. Nolan Tippins, Tokyo, Japan; Miss Dorothy Bloedel, Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Albert Okerbloom, Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Ward Slothower, Tabor, Iowa; Mrs. Clarence Charley, Tabor, Iowa; Raymond Bloedel, Tabor, Iowa; and Robert Bloedel, Malvern, Iowa. Also surviving are 17 grandchildren, three sisters and one brother.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty­seventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable A. S. Bloedel the people of Fremont 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.

FRED L. JOHNSON,

SCOTT SWISHER,

W. R. CHRISTIANSEN,

Committee.