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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 Donald L. Cannon of Gurnee, who passed 
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away on June 16, 2007; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Donald Cannon was born in Waukegan on October 9, 
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1928, the seventh child of Leslie and Mary "Mamie" Cannon and 
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grew up in Gurnee with his five sisters and one brother; and

 
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    WHEREAS,

Donald Cannon attended Gurnee Grade School and was 
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a Class of 1946 graduate from Warren Township High School, 
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where he excelled on the football and baseball fields and on 
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the basketball court; his skill in football led to a full four 
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year scholarship to Northeast Missouri State Teacher's College 
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in Kirksville, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1950; he 
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continued his football career playing for the United States 
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Army and the Waukegan Merchants, a local semi-pro team; after 
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college he entered the United States Army Airborne Division and 
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served as a paratrooper during the Korean War; and

 
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    WHEREAS, He married Elaine Jahnke at St. Patrick's Church 
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in West Lake Forest on May 23, 1953; after working briefly for 
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the Hough Company and Standard Oil Company, Don became a 
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popular businessman, owning Cannon and Myers Service Stations 
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in Grayslake and in Third Lake, from which he retired in April, 
 


 






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1989; he was a member of the Gurnee Community Church; and

 
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    WHEREAS, He will be remembered as a man with a great sense 
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of humor who loved birds and gardening; he was an avid reader 
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and sports enthusiast, as well as a man who loved to play golf 
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and bridge with his friends, and Monopoly with his two 
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grandchildren; during his golfing days, he shot three 
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holes-in-one; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Donald Cannon is survived by his wife, Barbara 
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(Richardson) whom he married in August 1991; his children, 
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Michael (Kathleen), and Christopher (Kim); his grandchildren, 
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Cody and Cassidy and Mary Lou (Doug Murphy); his sisters, Norma 
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Cunningham and Dorothy (Ed) Bennecke Bonovitz; and his many 
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nieces and nephews; he was preceded in death by his parents; 
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siblings, Nellie Porter, Russell Cannon, Beulah Porter, and 
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Carol Lodesky; his first wife, Elaine; and his daughter, 
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Kimberly; 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, along with 
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his family and friends, the passing of Donald Cannon; and be it 
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further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of Donald L. Cannon as a symbol of our 
 


 






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sympathy.