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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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| learned with sadness of the death of Mark A. Linder, age 31, of |
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| Peoria, on
October 15, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born October 18, 1973 in Peoria to Jody |
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| Linder and Rex Linder; and
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| WHEREAS, Mark was graduated from Richwoods High School; he |
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| received his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois |
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| University in 1995; he completed his master's degree studies at |
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| Western Kentucky University in 1997 in the field of |
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| industrial-occupational psychology; and
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| WHEREAS, He was employed in Information Services at CEFCU |
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| (Citizens Equity First Credit Union); and
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| WHEREAS, He was an active volunteer with the American Red |
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| Cross and the Relay for Life; he was active in the American |
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| Brain Tumor Association and that Association honored Mark by |
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| establishing an academic fellowship in his honor, known as the |
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| Mark Linder/American Brain Tumor Association Fellowship; and
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| WHEREAS, Mark founded the Walk for the Mind, a fundraiser |
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| walk for brain tumor research, which was first held on Peoria's |
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| Riverfront in 2003; the most recent Walk for the Mind in 2005 |
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| involved more than 300 participants and raised in excess of |
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| $25,000 for brain tumor research and related activities; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Mark A. Linder is felt by all who |
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| knew and loved him,
especially his parents, Jody Linder and Rex |
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| and Laurie Linder; his sisters Jamie and Stacie; his |
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| grandparents, Lyman D. Ketchum and Mary Kay and Louis Amberg; |
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| aunts and uncles, Barbara and Alan Ketchum, Betty and Nick |
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| Kouzomis, Mary and Marc Folladori, Beverlie and Robert Scott, |