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ELROY MAULE

Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Elroy Maule, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

The son of Charles and Jennie Maule, he was born May 16, 1913 at Mondamin, Iowa. On January 1, 1933 he married Evangeline Wickersham of Elk Point, South Dakota, to which union was born one son and one daughter.

He grew up in Onawa, Iowa; graduated from University of Iowa; taught science; was the principal and coach at Shueyville High School in Johnson County until 1941 when he and his wife purchased a farm west of Onawa. Both a farmer and a teacher, he was a former president of the Monona County Farm Bureau; member of the Farm Security Board; Chairman of the Boy Scout Council; Departmental Superintendent of the Monona County Fair; a member of the Administrative Board and Choir of the United Methodist Church; and taught in the West Harrison Community High School until retiring in 1975.

A Democrat, Mr. Maule represented Monona County in the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first General Assemblies. He was Majority Floor Leader in the Sixty-first General Assembly.

Elroy Maule died April 19, 1984. His survivors include his wife, Evangeline, of Onawa, Iowa; his son, John, of Onawa, Iowa; his daughter, Mrs. Rodger (Mary) Brubaker, of Flagstaff, Arizona; one brother, Robert, of Turin, Iowa; two sisters, Mrs. William (Lois) Beedle and Mrs. Myles (Inez) DeSomer, both of Onawa; nine grandchildren and one niece, Mrs. Frank (Genevieve) Sulek, of Lafferty, Ohio, whom he and Mrs. Maule raised.

Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Elroy Maule, 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.

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.

WAYNE BENNETT

LOUIS MUHLBAUER

JAMES D. O’KANE

Committee