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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to  
3learn of the death of
John Kevin Garvey, who passed away on May 
45, 2010; and
  
 
5    WHEREAS, John Kevin Garvey was born with spastic 
6quadriplegia, which left him unable to walk or communicate 
7beyond smiles and eye contact; despite his disability, however, 
8he accumulated an inordinate number of friends, fans, and 
9admirers throughout his life; and
  
 
10    WHEREAS, John Kevin Garvey was well known to his friends 
11and neighbors in Beverly, where he was born and raised, and 
12around Streeterville, where he lived his last decade and where 
13his devoted team of nurses would take him for excursions to the 
14Oak Street beach and along Michigan Avenue; and
  
 
15    WHEREAS, John Kevin Garvey attended programs at the Arthur 
16Rubloff Center in Chicago and the John Trutter Center in 
17Cicero; he was a member of Christ the King Roman Catholic 
18Church; and
  
 
19    WHEREAS, John Kevin Garvey is survived by his parents, 
20Kevin and Ann; his siblings, Tim, Julie Davis and Jim; his 
21brother-in-law, Marc Davis; his nieces and nephews, Madeline, 
 
 
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1Emma, Matthew, and Kevin Garvey and Elijah, Jadon, and Noah 
2Davis; and his many aunts, uncles, and cousins; therefore, be 
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4    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL 
5ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
6his family and friends, the passing of John Kevin Garvey; and 
7be it further
  
 
8    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
9presented to the family of John Kevin Garvey as an expression 
10of our sympathy.