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Bernard John Murphy

Carroll County

BERNARD JOHN MURPHY

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

Bernard John Murphy was born September 6, 1910, in Audubon, Iowa. He was the son of James and Emma Murphy.

When he was two years old the family moved to a farm where the present Murphy home is now located at 1806 Benjamin Street, Carroll, Iowa. He graduated from Carroll High School in 1930, and attended Trinity College, Sioux City and Midwest College of Commerce.

In 1934 he began work with the R.E.A. Express Company in Carroll and for seven years previous to his death had been manager of the company’s office in Carroll.

On May 20, 1939, he was married to Dorothy Knippel at Fort Dodge. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were the parents of two daughters.

He was a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church. He was active in the Charles Carroll Council Knights of Columbus of which he was a past grand knight. He served two terms as a trustee, and in 1958 was a state delegate to the national Knights of Columbus convention in Chicago. He also belonged to Elks Lodge No. 1637, the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, United Travelers Association and the Carroll Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Murphy, a Democrat, served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Sixtieth, Sixtieth Extra, and Sixty-first sessions of the General Assembly and had won renomination on the Democratic ballot in the primary election for the Sixty-second General Assembly.

Mr. Murphy was killed in an auto accident September 10, 1966. Surviving are his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Bernard Feilmeier and Maureen Murphy, all of Carroll.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA: That in the passing of the Honorable Bernard John Murphy 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.

KARL NOLIN,

C. RAYMOND FISHER,

WILLIAM WINKELMAN,

Committee.

House District 55