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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Lynda Kay McKay, formerly of Carlinville,
4 who passed away on December 4, 2009; and
 
5     WHEREAS, She was the daughter of John and Lola Passetti and
6 was raised in Gillespie; she was married to Robert McKay from
7 1961 to 1979 and they raised three children in Carlinville; and
 
8     WHEREAS, She graduated from Governors State University
9 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989; she worked in real
10 estate for many years; and
 
11     WHEREAS, She enjoyed bike riding for many years and
12 completed the nearly 500-mile Annual Great Bicycle Race Across
13 Iowa; she had an article about motherhood published in the
14 Illinois State Journal-Register in 1991; and
 
15     WHEREAS, In 2006 she traveled to Guatemala and had lived in
16 the Chicago area towards the end of her life; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Lynda McKay is survived by her daughter, Diana
18 Lowder; her sons, Greg and Jeff (Marcy); her grandchildren,
19 Anthony, Reed, Alejandra, and David; and her sister, JoAnne
20 Sawyer; therefore, be it
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
2 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
3 her family and friends, the passing of Lynda McKay; and be it
4 further
 
5     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
6 presented to the family of Lynda McKay as a symbol of our
7 sincere sympathy.