Representative Alvin Perry Meyer View All Years

ALVIN P. MEYER

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

Alvin P. Meyer was born in Madison County, October 7, 1897, the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Meyer. He was educated in the Madison County schools.

On December 29, 1923, he was married to Dorothy Ruth Shambaugh, and to them were born two sons and three daughters.

Alvin P. Meyer was head of Meyer Enterprises, including farming, a supermarket, an oil business, a bowling alley, two restaurants, and a welding shop. He was one of the twenty-three organizers of Life Investors of Iowa and vice-president of Life Investors Insurance Company, as well as one of of the organizers of Heartland Productions, an Iowa motion picture company. Mr. Meyer held membership in the Rotary Club, the Uptown Lions Club, Lake View Country Club, and had been president of the Winterset Chamber of Commerce and the Madison County branch of the Iowa Development Commission. He was a member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, of Van Meter.

As a Democratic State Representative from Madison County, Mr. Meyer served in the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixtieth Extra sessions of the General Assembly.

He passed away October 21, 1967. Surviving him are his wife, Dorothy; three daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Bucklew, of North Ridge; California, Mrs. Barbara Morasco, of San Diego, California, and Mrs. Karen Silliman, of Winterset; and two sons, Carroll, of North Kansas City, Missouri, and Frederick, of Winterset, Iowa; a brother, Earl Meyer, of Van Meter; and a sister, Mrs. Mae Gowin, of Van Meter; and eighteen grandchildren.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Alvin P. Meyer, 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.

ANDREW VARLEY

NORMAN RODGERS

JAMES I. MIDDLESWART

Committee