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WARREN JOHNSON

Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Warren Johnson, begs leave to submit the following Memorial:

Warren Johnson was born June 11, 1922, in Huron, South Dakota. He graduated from Central High School in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1940. He attended Morningside College and Grinnell College, and served in the United States Army during World War II. Upon returning to Sioux City he was employed with his father in the Johnson Furniture Store. He was married in 1947 to Mariellen Rifebark in Sioux City and later moved to a farm in Sloan. They had three sons and two daughters.

Mr. Johnson was a member of Attica Lodge 502 AF & AM in Sloan, and was also a member of the High Twelve. He served as president of the Sioux City Jaycees, the Woodbury County Farm Bureau, the Woodbury Extension Council and the Pork Producers. He was secretary of the Iowa Pork Producers. He was a member of the State Extension Advisory Council and was president of Sloan Consolidated, Westwood Community and Woodbury County Schools. He served as chairman of AEA 12. He was a member of the Congregational Church of Sloan where he was a former deacon and moderator.

He served as a member of the Republican Party during the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Sixty-ninth Extra and the Sixty-ninth Second Extra General Assemblies from 1978-1982.

Mr. Warren Johnson passed away on May 16, 1996, at his residence in Sloan, Iowa. He is survived by his wife Mariellen of Sioux City, three sons, Warren “Gus” of Bend, Oregon; David Richard of Biloxi, Mississippi; Thomas C. of Canton, Ohio; two daughters, Helen Ruth Kelly of Scammon, Kansas; and Georgianne Opitz of Harrisburg, South Dakota. He is preceded in death by a sister, Janet Mohle.

Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-seventh General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Warren Johnson, 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.

DONALD GRIES

CHRISTOPHER RANTS

STEVE WARNSTADT

Committee