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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate were saddened | ||||||
| 3 | to learn of the death of Richard S. "Dick" Clarke, who passed | ||||||
| 4 | away on January 16, 2010; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Dick was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August | ||||||
| 6 | 23, 1034, the first born of Jesse Edward Clarke and Sarah | ||||||
| 7 | Elizabeth Pilkerton and was the eldest of eight children; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Dick married his wife, Connie, in 1956, and had | ||||||
| 9 | three children; Stuart, Stephen, and Susan; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Dick trained to be a teacher at Illinois State | ||||||
| 11 | Normal, and subsequently worked as a science educator, | ||||||
| 12 | industrial engineer, manufacturing executive, salesman, | ||||||
| 13 | consultant, and entrepreneur; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Dick also wrote for a science encyclopedia, was a | ||||||
| 15 | science fair director, a violinist, a gymnast in a traveling | ||||||
| 16 | circus, and a poet; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Dick was a very religious and spiritual man, as | ||||||
| 18 | well as a devout Catholic for the last sixty-three years, | ||||||
| 19 | teaching CCD at St. Margaret Mary for many years; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Dick was a devoted father to each of his children, | ||||||
| 2 | and was deeply saddened by the loss of his daughter, Susan, at | ||||||
| 3 | the age of sixteen; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Richard S. "Dick" Clarke is survived by his wife | ||||||
| 5 | of fifty-four years, Connie, nee Koga; his devoted children, | ||||||
| 6 | Stewart (Mary Margaret) and Stephen J. (Renee); and his | ||||||
| 7 | grandchildren, Dustin, Steven Ray, Nikita, and Cheyanne Rose; | ||||||
| 8 | he was the fond brother of David (Joy), Rose Harbour, Bonnie | ||||||
| 9 | (late Steven) Kingsbury, Debbie (Gerry) del Junco, the late | ||||||
| 10 | Betty Jean (late John) Schultz, Ginny (Jim) Betts, and Phillip | ||||||
| 11 | Clarke; and the brother-in-law of Maurice (Mary) Koga; | ||||||
| 12 | therefore, be it
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| 13 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 14 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 15 | his family and friends, the passing of Richard S. "Dick" | ||||||
| 16 | Clarke; and be it further
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| 17 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 18 | presented to the family of Richard S. "Dick" Clarke as a symbol | ||||||
| 19 | of our sincere sympathy.
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