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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 William "Bill" Coburn Fox of Hilton Head | ||||||
| 4 | Island, South Carolina, formerly of Champaign, who passed away | ||||||
| 5 | on February 29, 2012; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, He was born April 2, 1925, in Carthage, New York, | ||||||
| 7 | the son of Reba Coburn Fox and William Mould Fox; he married | ||||||
| 8 | Alice Boulware on September 4, 1948;
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| 9 | WHEREAS, He entered Williams College at age 16, leaving | ||||||
| 10 | after 2 years to serve in the Navy; he was the leader of an | ||||||
| 11 | elite Underwater Demolitions Team that helped secure Iwo Jima | ||||||
| 12 | and Okinawa; his unit received the Presidential Unit Citation | ||||||
| 13 | for its actions at Iwo Jima and he was awarded the Silver Star | ||||||
| 14 | for his service; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, After the war, he returned to Williams College and | ||||||
| 16 | graduated cum laude; he later graduated from Harvard Business | ||||||
| 17 | School in June 1949 with an MBA degree; he started his career | ||||||
| 18 | with Climax Corporation in Washington, D.C.; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, In 1950, he and Alice moved to her hometown of | ||||||
| 20 | Champaign, and he joined his father-in-law in his business, | ||||||
| 21 | White Line Laundry; after managing White Line, he joined First | ||||||
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| 1 | National Bank as vice president and then moved to president in | ||||||
| 2 | 1971 and bank chairman in 1977; he led the bank's growth and | ||||||
| 3 | expansion culminating in a merger with other Illinois banks to | ||||||
| 4 | form Midwest Financial Group, now PNC bank, retiring in | ||||||
| 5 | December 1988; and | ||||||
| 6 | WHEREAS,
During his business career, he served as chairman | ||||||
| 7 | of Carle Foundation and was a board member at Clifford Jacobs | ||||||
| 8 | and Gill Company; he was appointed a board member by former | ||||||
| 9 | Governor Edgar to the Illinois State Board of Investment; he | ||||||
| 10 | was active in local charities, serving as treasurer for | ||||||
| 11 | McKinley YMCA; he was an elder of First Presbyterian Church and | ||||||
| 12 | served as trustee for the endowment fund; and | ||||||
| 13 | WHEREAS, After retirement, he and his wife moved to Hilton | ||||||
| 14 | Head; he enjoyed golf, travel, and gardening; he volunteered as | ||||||
| 15 | a board member of the Cypress Residential Living Community and | ||||||
| 16 | as treasurer of Volunteers in Medicine, a not-for-profit | ||||||
| 17 | serving more than 30,000 patients annually on Hilton Head | ||||||
| 18 | Island; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, William Fox is survived by his wife, Alice; his | ||||||
| 20 | sister, Virginia Fox Moeller; his sons and his daughter, Peter | ||||||
| 21 | B. Fox (Kim), Elizabeth (Robert) McMahon, Hardin Andrew Fox | ||||||
| 22 | (Muffy), and William Bruce Fox (Jennifer); his 10 grandchildren | ||||||
| 23 | and one great-grandchild; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 2 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 3 | his family and friends, the passing of William Fox; and be it | ||||||
| 4 | further
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| 5 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 6 | presented to the family of William Fox as a symbol of our | ||||||
| 7 | sincere sympathy.
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