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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened 
3to learn of the death of Robert Spencer Fleming of Moline, who 
4passed away on August 25, 2021; and
  
 
5    WHEREAS, Robert Fleming was born in Riverside, California 
6to Wilbur and Dorothy (Snell) Fleming on October 23, 1927; he 
7graduated from Denison University; he attended Ohio State 
8University Law School; he married Caroline Warfield in Moline 
9on July 29, 1952; he served in the U.S. Navy during both World 
10War II and the Korean War; and
  
 
11    WHEREAS, Robert Fleming worked as an executive at Deere 
12and Company for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1982; he 
13then served as a municipal court magistrate in Iowa for three 
14years; and
  
 
15    WHEREAS, Robert Fleming was a member of the First 
16Congregational Church in Moline, the Moline Rotary Club, and 
17the Wabaningo Community Church in Whitehall, Michigan, where 
18he served as treasurer and greeter; and
  
 
19    WHEREAS, Robert Fleming enjoyed spending the winter 
20holidays in Sarasota, Florida, and summers at the family 
21cottage in Sylvan Beach, Michigan; he spent his summers 
 
 
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1playing tennis and badminton, swimming in Lake Michigan, and 
2playing golf, which he took up after retirement; he got his 
3first hole-in-one at age 75 and continued to play into his late 
480s; and
  
 
5    WHEREAS, Robert Fleming is survived by his wife of 69 
6years, Caroline; his four children and their spouses, Susan 
7Schuler, Mary and Scott Francis, William and Sufia Fleming, 
8and David Fleming and fiancée Jacklyn Headrick; his four 
9grandchildren, Jillian Schuler and her husband Walter Beer, 
10T.J. Schuler, Bobby Francis, and Sarah Francis; and his 
11brother and sister-in-law, Richard and Mary Fleming; 
12therefore, be it
  
 
13    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL 
14ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of 
15Robert Spencer Fleming and extend our sincere condolences to 
16his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it 
17further
  
 
18    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
19presented to the family of Robert Fleming as an expression of 
20our deepest sympathy.