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GLENN F. BROCKETT
Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Glenn F. Brockett begs to submit the following Memorial:
Glenn F. Brockett was born May 5, 1910, in Boone, Iowa, son of Ellis D. and Jennie Brockett. He married Pearl C. Collins in 1940.
He graduated from Carlisle High School in 1928. He earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University in 1935. He was Vice-president of marketing for Fisher Controls Corporation from 1962-70 and marketing consultant for Fisher Controls Corporation from 1970-75. Mr. Brockett participated from 1942-46 in the Manhattan District Project (Atomic Bomb). He was former director of the YMCA, General Chairman of United Way in 1972, Fellow of the Instrument Society of America, Rotarian, and Chairman of the Capitol Planning Commission.
A Republican, Mr. Brockett was a member of the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh General Assemblies.
Glenn F. Brockett died July 20, 1999, at the Marshalltown Medical and Surgical Center. Survivors include a son, Glenn Brockett, Jr. of Rye, New Hampshire, and two daughters, Diane Brockett of Washington D.C., and Pat Brockett of Des Moines, Iowa.
Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-eighth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Glenn F. Brockett, 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.
BEVERLY NELSON-FORBES
BILL DOTZLER
TERESA GARMAN
Committee