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90_SR0128
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1 SENATE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to send
3 their condolences to the family of Jerome G. Corbett of
4 Hardin, Illinois, who passed away on October 20, 1997; and
5 WHEREAS, Jerome Corbett was born in Hardin, Illinois, on
6 January 19, 1917; his parents were Bartholomew "Batty" and
7 Margaret Fischer Corbett; on February 13, 1955 he married
8 JoAn Dufner in Hermann, Missouri; and
9 WHEREAS, Jerome Corbett attended Hardin High School and
10 graduated from Routt High School in Jacksonville; Jerome
11 Corbett attended St. Louis University and the University of
12 Illinois; he played professional baseball for the St. Louis
13 Browns organization, and will be remembered for being an
14 exceptional athlete and scholar through both high school and
15 college; Jerome Corbett served in World War II as an officer
16 in the Far East Asia Command where he received a Direct
17 Commission; and
18 WHEREAS, Jerome Corbett operated many family businesses
19 including a Western Auto dealership, an International
20 Harvester agency, a dairy, an ice house, a butcher shop, a
21 grocery store, and Corbett Farms; he also owned Corbett Ford
22 and Corbett Buick in Hardin and Dufner Corbett Motors in
23 Hermann, Missouri; he was presently working in his wife's
24 real estate and insurance business; and
25 WHEREAS, Jerome Corbett served the State of Illinois and
26 the citizens of the 49th district as an Illinois State
27 Representative; while serving in the House, Jerome Corbett
28 was active in the Highway Study Commission and the Export
29 Advisory Board; Jerome Corbett helped his district in the
30 areas of highway improvements and bringing telephone service
31 to many of the rural areas; and
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1 WHEREAS, Jerome Corbett served as a Fifty Year member of
2 the American Legion, a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus, a
3 board member of the Calhoun County chapter of the American
4 Cancer Society, a member of St. Norbert's Catholic Church, a
5 fifty-year member of the Missouri Athletic Club, and served
6 Calhoun County as the Democratic Chairman for twenty-five
7 years; and
8 WHEREAS, Jerome Corbett will be remembered as a man
9 dedicated to nature, to his community, to his faith, and to
10 his family; Jerome Corbett is survived by his loving wife,
11 JoAn, his son, Dufner J. Corbett, his daughter, Kelly Ann
12 Corbett, and his grandchildren, Margot and Christopher;
13 therefore, be it
14 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
15 OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with his
16 family and friends, the death of Jerome Corbett; may he be
17 remembered for his dedication to the things he believed in
18 and cared about; and be it further
19 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
20 presented to the family of Jerome Corbett.