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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| were saddened to learn of the death of Charles K. Barnett of |
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| Roodhouse on Monday, April 5, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Barnett was born October 15, 1925, in |
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| Winchester to Robert Greene and Edna Thelma Day Barnett; he |
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| married Clara Elizabeth Peterson in 1946 in Winchester; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Barnett graduated from high school in |
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| Winchester in 1942; he attended the University of North |
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| Carolina and received his Masters of Arts in education from |
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| MacMurray College in Jacksonville in 1959; he did graduate work |
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| in education at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Barnett was a teacher at Roodhouse schools, |
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| assisting as basketball, football, and track coach; he was a |
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| teacher and principal at Patterson School for 10 years; he |
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| served one year as assistant regional superintendent of Greene |
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| County; 16 years as regional superintendent of Greene County; |
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| 10 years as district manager of World Book Encyclopedias; 10 |
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| years on the Greene County Board of Education, four years as |
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| chairman; and 15 months as director of vocation for Greene, |
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| Calhoun, and Jersey counties; he was president of the Retired |
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| Teachers Association of Greene and Jersey counties; he served |
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| 20 years as chairman of the Roodhouse Library; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Barnett valiantly served his country in the |
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| U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946; he was a member of the American |
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| Legion for 50 years and the Roodhouse Lions Club for 20 years, |
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| and he was a member of Roodhouse First Baptist Church; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Charles K. Barnett has been deeply |
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| felt by many, especially his wife, Clara E.; his daughter, |