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ELIZABETH RUBY MILLER

MADAM PRESIDENT: Elizabeth Ruby Miller was born August 24, 1905, in Marshall County, Iowa, and was a lifelong resident of that community. She passed away December 31, 1988, at her home in rural Marshalltown, at the age of 83 years.

Mrs. Miller attended public school in Marshalltown and graduated from Marshalltown High in 1923. She married John Bascom Miller on September 5, 1923. They had two sons, John B. of Titonka, Edward J. of Marshalltown, and two daughters, Mary Lou Speas and Betty Arlene Weeden, both of Marshalltown.

Mrs. Miller was a housewife who was devoted to her husband and family, and very active in the First Congregational Church, Republican Women’s organizations, Farm Bureau, Federated Women’s Club, Marshalltown Women’s Club, American Institute of Parliamentarians, National Federation of Business & Professional Women’s Club and the National Order of Women Legislators.

Senator Miller served in the Iowa Legislature from 1969 to 1980, the first four years as a state representative and then as a state senator for eight years. Her major issues were environmental and agricultural.

She was Parliamentarian of the Iowa Federation of Republican Women, and was in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in Government and Who’s Who in America.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE SEVENTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA: That in the passing of the Honorable Elizabeth Ruby Miller, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and that the Senate by this Resolution, expresses its appreciation of her service to the State and tenders its sympathy and kindest regards to the members of her 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 instructed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

JOHN SOORHOLTZ, Chair

EMIL HUSAK

CHARLES BRUNER

Committee