Flags all around Iowa will be lowered to half-staff Friday to remember a former Iowa Senate president who died this week.

Kibbie’s public service began in 1960 when he was elected to the Iowa House. The Democrat was then elected to the Iowa Senate in 1964 and served in that body at the Statehouse u

Governor Kim Reynolds orders flags to be lowered to half-staff on Friday in honor and remembrance of former Iowa Senate president, Jake Kibbie, who recently passed away. Kibbe began his public service tenure in 1960,

Jack Kibbie, a farmer from Emmetsburg who served as president of the Iowa Senate earlier this century, has died at the age of 95. Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack served alongside Kibbie in the state senate in the late 1980s.