DIVORCE LAWS IN IOWA. DIVORCE LAWS

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Divorce Laws In Iowa

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(Divorce law) Divorce (or the dissolution of marriage) is the final termination of a marital union, cancelling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties.

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a state in midwestern United States
a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Iowa
A state in the northern central US, on the western banks of the Mississippi River; pop. 2,964,324; capital, Des Moines; statehood, Dec. 28, 1846 (29). It was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803
a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri

JR Simplot and Jake Putnam

John Richard Simplot (January 9, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, an Ag company specializing in potato products. In 2007 Forbes magazine estimated J.R. to be the 89th-richest person in America, at $3.6 billion. At the time of his death in May 2008, at age 99, he was the oldest billionaire on the Forbes 400.

During this hour-long interview, Mr. Simplot was upset about a deal that had gone south with McDonalds, He also talked about his long, brilliant career. He was cheerful and his thoughts were clear, spokesman Fred Zerza told us it was a good day for the tycoon.

Born in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1909, Jack was the third of six children of Charles R. and Dorothy Simplot. A year later, the family relocated to Burley, Idaho to homestead in the newly irrigated Magic Valley. J.R. quit school in the eighth grade and at age 14, left home to strike out on his own in 1923. He then worked on a farm near Declo, getting into the potato and onion processing business.

By World War II, the J. R. Simplot Company had become the largest shipper of fresh potatoes in the nation.

In 1945, Simplot’s Soilbuilder/Grower Solutions organization was formed, and Simplot established a canning and dehydrating quick-freeze plant in which employees tested frozen potato products. The Simplot Company is credited with pioneering the first commercial frozen French fry in the late 1940s. In 1953, Simplot patented the frozen French-fried potato, an invention of his scientists that would later make him billions.

In 1967, Simplot joined forces with McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, and agreed that the Simplot Company would provide frozen French fries to the restaurant chain. Previously, McDonald’s restaurants had cut potatoes at each location for fresh French fries, but the favored Russet potato was not available for three months in the summer, leading to a quality control problem. Simplot was able to supply frozen Russet potatoes all year long. By 1972, all McDonald’s fries were frozen. The frozen fry deal led to expansion of Simplot potato processing plants and construction in 1977 of a new plant at Hermiston, Oregon. By 2005, Simplot supplied more than half of all french fries for the fast food chain. Simplot also is a major producer of fertilizer for agriculture.

Simplot retired as president of his company in 1973, but remained chairman until 1994. He held the title of Chairman Emeritus until his death in 2008. In 2001, Simplot received an honorary degree from Utah State University honoring him for his many contributions to the agricultural industry of America and, particularly, the Intermountain West. In 2003 he was awarded Governors Award for Excellence in Agriculture at the annual Idaho Ag Expo.

Further enhancing his enormous wealth, J. R. Simplot Company provided startup capital in the early 1980s for the fledgling Micron Technology, a Boise-based manufacturer of computer memory chips. Additionally, he invested heavily in Remington Oil.

In 1961, Simplot financed the Brundage Mountain ski area near McCall, two hours north of Boise. The Simplot Company sold its 50% interest in Brundage in April 2006 to the longtime co-owner, the DeBoer family.

Before his death, Jack Simplot and his wife Esther resided in the Grove Hotel building in downtown Boise, a few blocks from the company’s headquarters. The couple donated their landmark hilltop home, in Boise’s north end, to the state of Idaho in 2005 for use as a governor’s mansion. Now known as the The Idaho House, the once majestic house stands empty.

Simplot’s first marriage, to Ruby Rosevear of Glenns Ferry, ended in divorce in 1960 after 29 years, when she suddenly left Simplot. Simplot on many ocassion took full blame for the failed marriage, he told me that spending too many hours away from home and said too many hours away ‘sure as hell will destroy it.’

He and his second wife, Esther Becker, a former opera singer, met in the mid 1960s in New York. He was on a business trip and she was working as a receptionist for the Henry Phipps Foundation. They were married in 1972 and had a very happy life together.

Simplot died suddenly at his home on May 25, 2008, with his beloved Ester at his side, following a bout of pneumonia from which he appeared to be recovering. His death occurred moments after he had invited a friend to his home to play cards.

Mr. Simplot was survived by his wife, two sons, Don and Scott, and his daughter, Gay. His eldest son, Richard (Dick), died in 1993.

Simplot was the former father-in-law of current Idaho governor Butch Otter, a former executive with the Simplot Company. Otter was married to Gay Simplot for 28 years, from 1964 to 1992.

Simplot was a father figure for all that worked for him. My Dad, Uncle, Brother and Grandfather all worked for Mr. Simplot, they said he was a tough, but fair boss and all admired him greatly. He was affectionately known in our family as JR.

Jo's new John Deere (the story)

The woman in this picture is a friend of my sister Chris’s. She’s a divorced mother of four daughters, all of whom she managed to put through college.

Chris and Craig have hired her from time-to-time and she also mows the Calumet cemetary and a some other places. This summer dad hired her to mow his lawn; his leg pain had gotten worse and for the first time he wasn’t able to mow the lawn. Each time Jo used dad’s 6 HP John Deere self-propelled mower to do the job, she didn’t have a mower of her own. She asked dad to buy the mower a couple of weeks before the auction but dad didn’t really know how much to charge so he put it on the aucton instead.

Jo came to the auction with $150 to bid on the mower, she couldn’t go any higher than that. But the mower was one of the last things to be auctioned off so Jo had to wait over two hours before they finally got to the mower. She bid the mower up to $150 but someone else quickly bid $180 and Jo had to step out. Her disappointment was palatable. The mower ended up selling for $210.

Later Jo ended up visiting with Craig (my brother-in-law), pictured above. She told Craig of her disappointment but Craig told her she owed him 150 bucks. After Craig saw that the bidding had gone above $150, he waited and made the final bid to buy the mower. This shot was taken just after Jo learned that she was the new owner of a 6 HP John Deere self-propelled mower with bagger and attachments 🙂