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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 former Hillsboro Mayor Harold DeWitt |
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| Whitten, who passed away on March 5, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Whitten was a 1942 graduate of Coffeen High |
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| School; he was born July 1, 1923, in Coffeen, son of the late |
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| Jesse and Alta (Elam) Whitten; and
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| WHEREAS, He served in the United States Army in Europe |
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| during World War II; he had a long career in the Hillsboro |
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| community, including serving as Supervisor of Assessments at |
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| Coffeen, Montgomery County Sheriff from 1958 to 1962, and |
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| Montgomery County Treasurer from 1962 to 1964; he served as CEO |
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| of the Montgomery County National Bank, now National Bank, for |
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| 20 years and had been employed with Production Credit |
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| Association; and
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| WHEREAS, He was employed at the Department of Commerce and |
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| Community Affairs for eight years in Springfield; he was |
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| elected Mayor of Hillsboro in 1995 and served for eight years;
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| Mr. Whitten held memberships in the Calvary Baptist Church in |
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| Hillsboro, the Kiwanis Club, the Sheriff's Association, and the |
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| American Banker's Association; he was a lifelong member of |
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| Hillsboro Moose Lodge #1377 and a 50-year member of Mt. Moriah |
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| Masonic Lodge 51 AF & AM; and
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| WHEREAS, He married Mary Evelyn Satterlee on July 19, 1947, |
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| in Bond County, and she passed away on December 31, 1982; he |
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| married Mary Lee Reeves on February 15, 1997, at Calvary |
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| Baptist Church, Hillsboro; and
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| WHEREAS, Harold Whitten was preceded in death by his |
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| stepdaughter, Cheri Yaeger; his grandchildren, Neil Pachesa |
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| and Jessica Whitten; and his brother, Dwight Whitten; and
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| WHEREAS, Harold Whitten is survived by his wife, Mary Lee; |
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| his children, Harold Dean (wife Linda) Whitten, Mike (wife |
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| Cheryl) Whitten, Doris M. (husband Dr. Roger) McFarlin, Mary |
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| Lou Whitten, Gayle A. (husband Roy) Harrell, Paula Luebbert, |
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| and Jim (wife Pat) White; his stepson, Dale (wife Janet) |
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| Reeves; his grandchildren, Jason and Jeremy Whitten, Matt |
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| Pachesa, Amy Maedge, Mary Whitten, Nicole and Marissa Harrell, |
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| and Jarod and Nick Luebbert; his stepgrandchildren, Tara |
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| Reeves, Jason Yaeger and Stacy Kalmbacher; his five |
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| great-grandchildren; his sister, Dorothy Lentz; and his |
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| sisters-in-law, Clara Mae Whitten and Lavonne Satterlee; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |