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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
| 3 | learn of the death of John J. "Jack" Thelen of Antioch, who | ||||||
| 4 | passed away on February 21, 2010; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, He was born May 25, 1950, in Woodstock, the son of | ||||||
| 6 | Verner and Mary Ann "Bunny" (nee, Stoffel) Thelen; he had | ||||||
| 7 | resided in Pistakee Highlands and Spring Grove before settling | ||||||
| 8 | in Antioch; On January 20, 1973, he married Deborah Nesbit in | ||||||
| 9 | St. Louis, Missouri; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, He was a member of St. Peter Church of Antioch, | ||||||
| 11 | past board member and past president of the Antioch Chamber of | ||||||
| 12 | Commerce, member and Paul Harris Fellow of the Antioch Rotary | ||||||
| 13 | Club, and member of the Northern Illinois Ready Mix & Materials | ||||||
| 14 | Association, Illinois Ready Mixed Concrete, and Wisconsin | ||||||
| 15 | Ready Mix Concrete Associations, the Boy Scouts of America | ||||||
| 16 | Troop #92 of Antioch, the Northern Illinois Shooters | ||||||
| 17 | Association and the Big Foot Archers, and a board member of the | ||||||
| 18 | State Bank of the Lakes for 21 years; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Since 1963 he was a co-owner of Thelen Sand & | ||||||
| 20 | Gravel; and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his father, Vern | ||||||
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| 1 | Thelen; and a brother-in-law, Ross Berry; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, He was the husband for 37 years of Debbie; the | ||||||
| 3 | father of John R. (Tami), Jessica M. Thelen, and Jennifer | ||||||
| 4 | (Patrick) Barton; the son of Mary Ann "Bunny" Thelen; the | ||||||
| 5 | grandfather of Taylor Kae, Jacob T., and Kylie E. Thelen and | ||||||
| 6 | Grace K. Barton; the brother of Mary Beth (Bob) Varak, Sue | ||||||
| 7 | (Warren) Schumacher, Tom (Paige) Thelen, Pete (Terry Childers) | ||||||
| 8 | Thelen, Steve (Diana) Thelen, Ann (Mark) Kroupa, Barb (Mark) | ||||||
| 9 | Miller, and Peg (Tom) Miles; the grandson of his maternal | ||||||
| 10 | grandparents, the late Jacob E. (Matilda) Stoffel, and his | ||||||
| 11 | paternal grandparents, the late John J. (Agatha) Thelen; the | ||||||
| 12 | son-in-law of Robert C. (Dorothy J.) Nesbit; and the | ||||||
| 13 | brother-in-law of Cyndi Parazak, Karen (Dan) Spalding, and Kim | ||||||
| 14 | (Gary) Martin and their families; therefore, be it
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| 15 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 16 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 17 | his family and friends, the passing of John J. "Jack" Thelen; | ||||||
| 18 | and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 20 | presented to the family of John J. "Jack" Thelen as a symbol of | ||||||
| 21 | our sincere sympathy.
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