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C. ROYCE GORDY

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

C. Royce Gordy was born in Bloomfield, Iowa, on December 24, 1931, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gordy. He was educated in the public schools of Bloomfield, and graduated from Northeast Missouri State University with honors, majoring in government and economics. He did graduate work in school administration at Northeast Missouri State University, Central Missouri State University, University of Missouri at Kansas City, and Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

Mr. Gordy married Hildred Wilkinson in 1953. To this union two sons and two daughters were born.

Mr. Gordy was in school administration in Missouri schools for several years, and was in the real estate business in Florida for two years. At the time of his death, he was assistant principal at Clinton High School, Clinton, Iowa. He served in the United States Navy from June 1951 to June 1955. He attended fire-control school for one year in San Diego, California, served aboard aircraft carriers during the Korean war and was discharged a fire-control technician first class.

Mr. Gordy was a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Citizens Committee for the Constitutional Convention and a member of the Governor’s Reapportionment Action Committee.

Mr. Gordy, a Democrat, served in the House of Representatives in the Fifty-eighth General Assembly.

Mr. Gordy passed away on October 26, 1971, and is survived by his wife Hildred of Bloomfield; two sons, Claude Royce, Jr. and Clifford Roger Gordy of Bloomfield; two daughters, Karen Christine and Kala Colleen of Bloomfield; and his parents Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gordy of Bloomfield.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable C. Royce Gordy, 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.

MATTIE HARPER

WALLY E. HORN

KEITH H. DUNTON

Committee