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SENATE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
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learn of the death of Dorothea Wilson Plummer Sheppard of 
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Litchfield, who passed away on March 14, 2007; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Dorothea Wilson was born on June 9, 1928, in Honey 
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Point Township in Macoupin County, northwest of Litchfield, the 
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daughter of the late Harry and Lydia Bishop Wilson; she married 
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John Plummer on June 12, 1947 and they divorced in 1978; she 
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later married Rodney Doebler on January 3, 1980; he passed away 
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in 1996; she married Floyd Sheppard on August 17, 1996, and he 
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passed away in 2000; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Mrs. Sheppard was employed over the years by Brown 
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Shoe Company in Litchfield, as a waitress at The Supper Club, 
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and as a waitress and hostess at the Southern Air Restaurant, 
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both in Springfield; in 1980, she moved to Newaygo, Michigan 
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where she worked as a food demonstrator at D&W Supermarket in 
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Fremont, Michigan;  she was a member of the First Baptist Church 
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in Litchfield; and

 
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    WHEREAS, In addition to her parents and previous husbands, 
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she was preceded in death by three brothers: William, Carl and 
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Harry Wilson; and five sisters: LaVerna Wilson, Helen Snow, 
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Evelyn Durr, June Schmuck, and Purletta Woods; and

 
 


 






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    WHEREAS, Dorothea Wilson Plummer Sheppard is survived by 
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her sons, John Plummer Jr. and his wife, Joyce, Terry Plummer 
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and his wife, Vanessa, and Robert Plummer and his wife, Donna; 
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her brothers, Arthur Wilson and Gerald Wilson; her sisters, 
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Alvira Radley and her husband, Tom, and Nelma Ridley and her 
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husband, Dennis; and her grandchildren: Julie Lading and her 
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husband, Phillip, Jennifer and Jason Plummer, Jana and Sarah 
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Plummer, and Audra and Lauren Plummer; therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of 
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Dorothea Wilson Plummer Sheppard and extend our condolences to 
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her family and friends at this time; and be it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of Dorothea Wilson Plummer Sheppard as 
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a symbol of our sympathy.