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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 Henry E. "Hank" Buch, of McHenry, who |
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| passed away on April 1, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born June 26, 1925, in McHenry, to Henry E. |
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| and Mary (Freund) Buch; on September 23, 1950, he married Alice |
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| C. Mlotkowski at St. Francis DeSales Church in Lake Zurich; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a lifetime resident of McHenry and |
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| graduated from McHenry High School in 1943; immediately after |
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| high school, he entered the United States Army Air Corps, where |
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| he served as a training instructor; after his military service, |
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| he attended architecture school in Chicago; after completing |
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| school, he married Alice and joined his father in the family |
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| business, H.E. Buch & Sons; after his father's death, he |
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| continued to work in the heating and air conditioning |
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| profession and later was joined in business by his son; he |
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| retired in 1990; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in |
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| McHenry since 1951; in addition, he was a volunteer firefighter |
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| with McHenry Township Fire Protection District Co. I, for more |
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| than 34 years; he remained an associate member of the |
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| department after retiring from volunteer service; in addition |
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| to the fire department, he very much enjoyed working and |
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| running his business, as well as being with his family; in his |
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| younger years, he served as baseball coach for the Pigtail |
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| League for his son and daughter; and after retirement, he |
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| enjoyed puttering around his workshop, woodworking, and |
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| tending to rental property; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents; his |
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| brother, Elbert Buch; his niece, Mary Buch; and his nephew, |
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| David Buch; and
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| WHEREAS, Henry Buch is survived by his loving wife of 58 |
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| years, Alice; his children, Kenneth (Linda) Buch, Nancy (Roy) |
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| Stolzman, and Karen Young; his grandchildren, Christopher, |
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| Nicole and Natalie Buch and Scott Young II; his |
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| stepgrandchildren, Roy (Alyssa) Stolzman and Jim Stolzman; his |
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| stepgreat-granddaughters, Ellie and Emma; his sisters, Kathryn |
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| (the late Ernest) Lohr and Helen Bucho; his brother, Jerome |
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| (Ethel) Buch; and a sister-in-law, Agens Buch; 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 |
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| his family and friends, the passing of Henry E. "Hank" Buch; |
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| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That That a suitable copy of this resolution be |