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| Name | Paul E. McElroy |
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November 11, 1907
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| Died | November 20, 1965
(58 years)
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| Info | Paul E. McElroy was born at Percival, Iowa, November 11, 1907, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed McElroy. He attended school at Percival and graduated from high school there. He graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in animal husbandry.
For ten years he was extension director of Fayette County, Iowa.
In 1936 he married Lillian Arthur of Randalia. They became the parents of four children, three daughters and a son.
Mr. McElroy was active in the work of the Iowa Heart Association. He became chairman of the Fremont County chapter of the Association, then served as a member of its state board of directors. In 1964 he was elected president of the Iowa Heart Association, and 1965 became chairman of the board.
Mr. McElroy was active in other community and county organizations, including the Fremont County Farm Bureau, of which he was president, and the Fremont County Fair Association. He was president of the Fair Board for ten years. He served as a member of the county 4-H youth committee. He was a member of the Percival Community church and the Percival Consolidated School Board. He joined his brother-in-law, Lowell Sherwood, in establishing the Sherwood-McElroy Lumber Company of Percival.
Mr. McElroy, a Republican, served as Fremont County Representative in the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth sessions of the Iowa General Assembly. He died Nov. 20, 1965.
Surviving Mr. McElroy are his wife, Lillian; three daughters, Sheryl (Mrs. Jim Hunter), Council Bluffs; Sharon (Mrs. Dale Hirz), Rochester, Minn.; Diane (Mrs. William Obert), Laughlin, A .F .B., Texas; and a son, Paul Rodney McElroy, Percival; a sister, Mrs. Orville Sonner, Percival; and five grandchildren.
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