Representative Fred Lincoln Johnson View All Years

FRED L. JOHNSON

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

Fred L. Johnson, son of Frederick and Susan Cox Johnson, was born June 20, 1889, at Lincoln, Nebraska, and died November 25, 1964, at the age of 75 years.

He was educated in Hamburg Public Schools. He was graduated from the University of Iowa in 1911 with a B.A. degree, and was granted a Master’s Degree from the University of Nebraska in 1939.

He married Marie E. Scott of Sidney, Iowa, who died, and later married Grace McKissick, of Hamburg, Iowa. To this union three sons and one daughter were born.

Mr. Johnson served thirty-six years as teacher, principal or superintendent in Fremont county, Iowa, schools, and two years in Miles City, Montana. His career in education spanned 45 years.

Mr. Johnson was a member of the Iowa-Nebraska Boundary Committee, 1957-58. He was a Mason; member of the Farm Bureau; Farmer’s Coop; life member of the I.S.E.A.; past secretary of the Hamburg Kiwanis Club; was a member of I.O.O.F. 197; A.F.&A.M. 253; and R.A.M. 76. His thesis was instrumental in bringing about reciprocity laws which allow Nebraska and Missouri students living close to Iowa schools to attend them at the same rate as Iowa students.

Mr. Johnson, a Democrat, served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth General Assemblies.

Surviving Mr. Johnson are his widow; three sons, Frederic S., Hamburg, Iowa; Gerald E., Flint, Michigan; James E., Tabor, Iowa; one daughter, Mrs. Don D. (Elizabeth) Smith, Maryville, Missouri. Two brothers, Oral and Orville, both of Hamburg, are also survivors.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Fred L. Johnson 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 his 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.

WILLIAM J. SCHERLE,

LEROY MILLER,

CONRAD OSSIAN,

Committee.