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KARL NOLIN

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Karl Nolin, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Karl Nolin was born at Monroe in Jasper County, Iowa, on July 25, 1907, and lived to be 69 years of age. He was the eldest of four sons, including Bert of Ames, Harold of DeKalb, Illinois, and Wayne of Bondurant. He graduated from Bondurant High School and attended Iowa State University. He was united in marriage to Willa Colwell on June 19, 1936.

He was manager of the Farmers Cooperative Association of Ralston and Jefferson from 1934 to 1972 when he retired. He had been president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, a director of Farmers Grain Dealers of Iowa, Farmers Elevator Service Company and the National Soybean Processors Association. He was the official representative of the American Soybean Council at the International Trade Fair at Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1962 and received the Agriculture Business Manager of the Year Award in 1970.

Mr. Nolin was a former member of the Iowa Developmental Commission and president of the St. Anthony Regional Hospital Board of Directors at the time of his death.

Mr. Nolin served as a State Representative from 1967 to 1968 during the Sixty-second General Assembly and as a State Senator, represented the 28th Senatorial District during the Fifty-fifth and Sixty-sixth General Assemblies from 1972 until his death on August 14, 1976, in Carroll, Iowa. He is survived by his wife, Willa; two daughters, Frankie Schwenk of Columbia, Maryland, and Gwen Childs of Gaithersburg, Maryland, two sons, Karl W. Jr., and Stephen, both of Spencer, Iowa; and six grandchildren.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Karl Nolin, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service to his community, state and nation and tender its sympathy and kindest regards to the members of his family.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

C. W. HUTCHINS, Chairperson

JOHN N. NYSTROM

NORMAN G. RODGERS

Committee

The resolution was unanimously adopted.