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CLAIR STRAND
Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Clair Strand, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
The son of Alfred and Katherine Strand, he was born August 21, 1909. He was married on July 6, 1935 to Beulah Brown, to which union were born two daughters.
Mr. Strand lived in Grinnell where he and his wife operated the United Food Store for thirty-three years. In 1958, he opened the first laundromat in Grinnell, and also operated one in Montezuma. He was an active member of the Grinnell First Baptist Church; the Grinnell Kiwanis Club; the Grinnell Chamber of Commerce; Hermon Masonic Lodge; the I.O.O.F. Lodge; the B.P.O. Elks Lodge; was a fifty-year member of the Rebekah Lodge; was a former member of the Steward Library Board; the Grinnell-Newburg Board of Education; the Greater Grinnell Development Corporation Board; the Grinnell Country Club Board; the Grinnell Planning Commission; and served on the Grinnell Federal Savings and Loan board of directors.
A Republican, Mr. Strand represented Iowa, Jasper and Poweshiek Counties in the Sixty-second, Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth General Assemblies.
Clair Strand died on February 8, 1984. He is survived by his wife, Beulah; two daughters, Charlotte Ellis of Grinnell and Betty Murray of Bettendorf; three brothers, Kenneth Strand of Adel, Ralph Strand of Rock Creek Lake and Donald Strand of Orlando, Florida; two sisters, Theresa Beason of Gilman and Genevieve Russell of Bettendorf; and six grandchildren.
Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventieth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Clair Strand, 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.
JANET CARL
RICHARD VARN
DENNIS BLACK
Committee