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GAIL A. RUSK
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Gail A. Rusk, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Gail A. Rusk was born December 1, 1897, in Madison County, Iowa, son of George and Sarah Steele Rusk. He attended the Madison County schools.
He married Eva Bierma, February 8, 1919 at Osceola, Iowa and to this union eight children were born.
Mr. Rusk, a retired farmer and a resident of the Newton area since 1930, was an elder of the First Christian Church of Newton. He served as a member of the Board of Supervisors for six years and was township trustee for two years. He was a member of the Amboy Grange, Kiwanis Club, Izaak Walton League, Farm Bureau and the Newton Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Rusk, a Democrat, served as state representative from Jasper County during the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth sessions of the General Assembly.
He passed away March 12, 1967, in Mesa, Arizona.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and an infant son.
Surviving him are his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Eugene (Deloris) Lang of Grinnell, Iowa; six sons, Dale of Mesa, Arizona; Carl of Phoenix, Arizona; George of Dallas, Texas; James of Laurel, Iowa; Forrest and Claude of Newton, Iowa.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA: That in the passing of the Honorable Gail A. Rusk 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.
NORMAN ROORDA,
A. L. MENSING,
WILLIAM J. GANNON,
Committee.