TROWBRIDGE, Delbert c1903-1973

TROWBRIDGE, KEISER, COOK

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Date: 5/28/2016 at 08:33:46

Fairfield Ledger, February 26, 1973

Last Rites

CHARLES CITY, Iowa - Funeral services for Rep. Delbert Trowbridge, R - Charles City, will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. here.

Trowbridge, 69, died of a heart attack at a Des Moines hospital Friday night. He had been ill for several weeks and had not been attending sessions of the Iowa House. He was serving his second term in the legislature.

He is survived by his widow and two daughters.
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Mason City Globe Gazette, February 26, 1973

Rep. Trowbridge dies

DES MOINES - State Rep. E. L. (Del) Trowbridge, R-Charles City, died of a heart attack Friday night at a Des Moines hospital. He was 69.

Serving his second term in the Iowa Legislature, Mr. Trowbridge had been ill for several weeks and had not been attending legislative sessions.

Funeral arrangements are pending at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City.

Mr. Trowbridge was a retired businessman, having spent most of his life in the food store business and in farm operations. He came to Charles City in 1944 as district supervisor for a food chain and later opened his own supermarket, which he operated for a number of years. He built the Trowbridge Shopping Center at Charles City.

He was born in Jefferson County, Ill., near Mount Vernon, where at the age of 17 he began his career in the food business.

He was a director of the First Security Bank in Charles City and of the Sterling State Bank at Austin, Minn., where he also had a food store. He was a member of the Floyd County Farm Bureau, the Elks Club and the First Congregational Church. He also was a 32nd-Degree Mason. he served two terms a president of the Charles City Industrial Development Corporation.

Mr. Trowbridge won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1970 in his first try for elective office. He again won election last fall after redistricting.

He is survived by his wife, Ethel, and two daughters, Mrs. Tom (Shirley) Keiser and Mrs. Roger (Joan) Cook.