Senator Elvie L. Dreeszen View All Years

ELVIE LUVERNE DREESZEN

Elvie Luverne Dreeszen was born August 7, 1920, at Douglas Township of Ida County. He passed away December 6, 1986, at Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove after a brief illness, at the age of sixty-six.

Mr. Dreeszen attended school in Cushing, Iowa. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 until 1945.

On June 2, 1946, Elvie Dreeszen married Norma Crane. They were the parents of two sons, Roger and Randall, both of Cushing, and two daughters, Mrs. Bryant (Lanyce) Mills of Fountain Valley, California, and Mrs. Brooks (Carolyn) Chantry of Eden Prairie, Minnesota; there are six grandchildren.

Mr. Dreeszen was named Iowa Master Farmer in 1964. He served widely in the county and area as a commnunity supporter, and he was agricultural assistant for three years to Congressman Wiley Mayne.

Elvie Dreeszen served as a State Senator in 1981 and 1982, and he was currently serving his first term as chairman of the State Soil Conservation Committee.

Other groups he belonged to included: the Holstein Kiwanis International; F. Roger Baumann Post, American Legion of Cushing; Ida County Historical Society; Farm Bureau; Ida County Pork Producers; Ida County Cattlemen; Ida County Soil Conservation Commission; and Select Pork and Maple Valley Pork Incorporated, which he served as general supervisor. He was past director of the Omaha District of the Federated Land Bank of Omaha, and also past director of the Iowa Water Pollution Control Commission.

A member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, he served for 28 years as a Sunday school teacher, served on the church council, and the Iowa District Council to the American Lutheran Church.

Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Seventy-second General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Elvie Luverne Dreeszen, 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 his service to his community, state and nation and tenders its sympathy and kindest regards to members of his 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.

DONALD V. DOYLE, Chair

WILMER RENSINK

AL STURGEON

Committee