Representative Cleve L. Carnahan View All Years

CLEVE L. CARNAHAN

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

Cleve L. Carnahan was born August 16, 1895, at Viola, Iowa, in Linn County. He was the son of William and Nancy Anderson Carnahan. He attended and graduated from Ottumwa High School in 1915.

He married Lucille Krumpholtz in 1924, and to this union were born six children: William, Arlene, Robert, Lois Ann, Harold, and James. Harold was killed in Korea in 1953.

Mr. Carnahan was a switchman and served in that capacity for forty-four years with C. M. and St. P. Railroad after which time be retired on September 30, 1960. He was a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church and of Masonic bodies, and took an active part in various organizations, including Knights Templar, Kaaba Shrine of Davenport, Knights of Pythias, American Legion, Veterans of World War I, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, West End Boosters of Ottumwa, and Izaak Walton League. He served three terms on the school board.

Mr. Carnahan, a Democrat, served in the House of Representatives in the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixtieth Extra, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second General Assemblies as a Representative of Wapello County. He passed away April 30, 1968.

Surviving Mr. Carnahan are his widow, Lucille, of Ottumwa; two daughters, Mrs. Arlene Peterson and Mrs. Lois Elliott, both of Ottumwa; three sons, William E. Carnahan of Savanna, Illinois, Robert C. Carnahan of Ottumwa, and James F. Carnahan of Ottumwa; a brother, Ronald V. Carnahan of Ottumwa, and seventeen 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 Cleve L. Carnahan, 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.

JAMES H. SCHWARTZ

CHARLES N. PONCY

TOM DOUGHERTY

Committee