Representative Paul Edward McElroy View All Years

PAUL E. MCELROY

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

Paul E. McElroy was born at Percival, Iowa, November 11, 1907, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed McElroy. He attended school at Percival and graduated from high school there. He graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in animal husbandry.

For ten years he was extension director of Fayette County, Iowa.

In 1936 he married Lillian Arthur of Randalia. They became the parents of four children, three daughters and a son.

Mr. McElroy was active in the work of the Iowa Heart Association. He became chairman of the Fremont County chapter of the Association, then served as a member of its state board of directors. In 1964 he was elected president of the Iowa Heart Association, and 1965 became chairman of the board.

Mr. McElroy was active in other community and county organizations, including the Fremont County Farm Bureau, of which he was president, and the Fremont County Fair Association. He was president of the Fair Board for ten years. He served as a member of the county 4-H youth committee. He was a member of the Percival Community church and the Percival Consolidated School Board. He joined his brother-in-law, Lowell Sherwood, in establishing the Sherwood-McElroy Lumber Company of Percival.

Mr. McElroy, a Republican, served as Fremont County Representative in the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth sessions of the Iowa General Assembly. He died Nov. 20, 1965.

Surviving Mr. McElroy are his wife, Lillian; three daughters, Sheryl (Mrs. Jim Hunter), Council Bluffs; Sharon (Mrs. Dale Hirz), Rochester, Minn.; Diane (Mrs. William Obert), Laughlin, A .F .B., Texas; and a son, Paul Rodney McElroy, Percival; a sister, Mrs. Orville Sonner, Percival; and five grandchildren.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA: That in the passing of the Honorable Paul E. McElroy, 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 H. HARBOR,

CONRAD OSSIAN,

LEROY S. MILLER,

Committee.