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MAURICE A. VAN NOSTRAND
Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Maurice A. Van Nostrand begs leave to submit the following Memorial:
Maurice Van Nostrand was born February 9, 1925 in Benedict, Nebraska. On February 10, 1944, he married Carol Cummings and they had three sons.
A 1942 graduate of Benedict High School, he attended the University of Nebraska, after which he was an aviation cadet from 1944-1945. In 1946 he and his family moved to Avoca, Iowa, where he operated grain elevators in Avoca and Oakland, and started a cattle feeding operation.
Mr. Van Nostrand was a member of many organizations, including the Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce; Board of Directors of Salvation Army; Pottawattamie County Health Center Board of Directors; Pottawattamie County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism; Editor of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil; and Chairman of the Iowa Commerce Commission from 1971-1979.
A Republican, Mr. Van Nostrand represented Pottawattamie County during the Sixtieth, Sixtieth Extra, Sixty-second and Sixty-third General Assemblies.
Maurice A. Van Nostrand died October 8, 1991. He is survived by his wife, Carol of Sun Lakes, Arizona; his three sons, Greg of Stockton, California, Kevin of Scottsdale, Arizona, and James of Kirkland, Washington; a brother, Clark of Bella Vista, Arkansas; two sisters, Virginia Deardorff of Atlantic, Iowa and Twyla Dorsey of Glendale, Arizona; four granddaughters and two grandsons.
Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Maurice A. Van Nostrand, 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.
DICK WEIDMAN
WILLIAM H. HARBOR
JOAN L. HESTER
Committee