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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 Ford C. "Bim" June Jr., who passed away |
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| on November 27, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Ford C. June Jr.
was born December 5, 1923; and
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| WHEREAS, Bim, a lifelong Joliet resident, attended Taft and |
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| Farragut grade schools and was in the class of 1942 at Joliet |
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| Township High School; while in high school he was a C.Y.O. and |
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| Golden Gloves boxing champion; and
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| WHEREAS, During World War II, he served as a lieutenant |
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| with the 13th Army Air Corps as a B-24 pilot in the South |
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| Pacific; he retired from the United States Department of |
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| Defense, where he worked in the procurement section at the |
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| Joliet Ordinance Ammunition Command/Army Procurement and |
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| Supply Agency (APSA); while at APSA, Bim served on a special |
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| team which spent six months in 1963 advising the government of |
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| Iran; and he was one of the founders of the APSA Rod & Gun Club; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Bim was an avid hunter and especially enjoyed |
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| fishing in the waters off Stuart, Florida;
Bim was one of the |
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| original organizers of the "Save Central" campaign in
1981 and |
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| was elected to the Joliet Township High School Board of |
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| Education in one of the largest write-in campaigns in Will |
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| County history; he later served as president of the Joliet |
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| Township High School Board; Bim had also been a member of the |
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| Elks Club of Joliet and the Joliet Country Club; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife, Lorraine |
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| "Dolly" (Petersen) June; his parents, Dorothy Dibell June and |
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| Ford C. June; his brother, Charles D.
June; and his sister, |
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| Virginia "Cis" (June) Tracy; and
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| WHEREAS, Ford June Jr. is survived by his three sons, Ford |
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| C. "Chet" (Judy) June, III, Peter Boyd (Janet) June, and David |
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| A. "Andy" (Cindy) June; his grandchildren, Kathryn Lynn June, |
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| Matthew Petersen June, and Morgan Lorraine June; and Amanda |
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| Suomela June and Hannah Lillian June; his |
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| granddaughter-in-law, Chang Suk Weber; his |
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| great-grandchildren, Robert James Weber, III, Angelica Kathren |
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| Weber, and Sarah Ann Weber; his great-great-granddaughter, |
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| Madison Nichole Weber; his nieces, Laura Lynn (June) Maycen and |
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| Susan Marie (June) Hildebrand; 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 Ford C. "Bim" June Jr.; |
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| and be it further
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