Pike Township Family Stories
WARREN ROTH FAMILY
Nichols, Iowa Centennial Book 1884-1984, page 337
By Warren RothWarren Roth and Pat Roth and their family came to live in Nichols in August of 1959.
Patricia’s parents are Lawrence Barrett and Edna Barrett of Baltimore, Maryland. They moved to Muscatine in 1951. Warren’s parents are John H. Roth and Frieda L. Roth of Muscatine.
Warren and Pat are parents of six children: Ronald Roth, Gale Roth, Christine Roth, Michael Roth, Susan Roth and Timothy Roth.
Ronald Roth is married to Mary Church. They live in Muscatine and are the parents of one child, Brooke Roth. Both are employed at HON in Muscatine.
Gale Roth is married to Don Doxie, sports editor of the Quad City Times. They live in Davenport., Iowa.
Christine Roth married Steve Poulsen. They live in West Liberty. Steve works at Sheller Globe in Iowa City; Chris at the West liberty State Bank.
Michael Roth is attending Kirkwood Community college in Cedar Rapids and lives at home.
Susan Roth is a senior at West Liberty High school.
Timothy Roth attends the West Liberty school.
Warren Roth worked at the Grain Processing Corporation until he started with Proctor & Gamble in Iowa City as a maintenance mechanic. He didn’t like large cities, so they decided to move to Nichols.
Warren Roth joined the Nichols Volunteer Fire department and is still an active member [1984].
He was appointed mayor of Nichols and has served since except for a two year term. Some of the things that have been put into effect while Warren Roth has been mayor are: getting natural gas to Nichols; two new fire trucks; new fire siren; new well and pump for the fire station and a new sanitary sewer. A special project of Warren’s was the new Community Building so the people could have a good place to have meetings.
The First Responder vehicle has been put in the old City hall. Warren is also vice chairman of the Muscatine County Crime Stoppers.
MAYOR WARREN ROTH
Nichols, Iowa Centennial Book 1884-1984, pages 143-144“Moonbeams” is a publication for employees of the Procter and Gamble Company. The issue of January 1972 included a feature story on Warren Roth, Mayor of Nichols.
Nichols is a diminutive, quiet town of less than 400 people, where rich-producing cornfields come right up to the ends of the streets. Warren Roth, who has served as the town’s mayor for four consecutive terms, is one of Nichols’ best-known citizens.
To earn his $6 monthly salary as mayor, Warren handles a multitude of challenges and problems that thousands of other small-city mayors in this country face every day. For example, he helped to obtain a grant of $270,000 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture for new sewer facilities in Nichols – the first non-educational federal aid ever received by the community. Warren estimates that he spent 60 hours in one month last year just getting petitions signed for money for the sewer grant.
As a member of the Muscatine County Crime Commission, Warren helped set up programs for training police officers, instituted drug addict rehabilitation and effected improvements in the county jail and court facilities. He is also secretary-treasurer of the Nichols Volunteer Fire Department, which is responsible for covering a city and rural area of 50 square miles. Since Warren has been in office, two new fire trucks have been added to the department’s stable of fire-fighting equipment.
Warren has been at our Iowa City facility since it started up 15 years ago. He has trained a dozen new employees in the toilet goods plant’s mechanical shop during this period.
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