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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 Monsignor Virgil W. Mank, who passed away |
| 4 | | on June 28, 2016; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Msgr. Mank was born in New Baden to William C. and |
| 6 | | Louise A. (Weirich) Mank on December 25, 1939; and
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| 7 | | WHEREAS, Msgr. Mank was ordained as a Priest at the |
| 8 | | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Springfield on May |
| 9 | | 22, 1965; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, Msgr. Mank began his service in the Diocese of |
| 11 | | Springfield as Associate Pastor of St. Agnes Parish in |
| 12 | | Springfield from 1965 to 1969 and at Saint Elizabeth Parish in |
| 13 | | Granite City from 1969 to 1970; beginning in 1970, he served |
| 14 | | for five years as the Chaplain of the Newman Community at |
| 15 | | Eastern Illinois University in Charleston; he returned as |
| 16 | | Associate Pastor to SS. Peter & Paul Parish in Collinsville |
| 17 | | from 1975 to 1977 and as Co-Administrator at St. Mary in |
| 18 | | Taylorville and St. Rita in Kincaid from 1977 to 1979; he was |
| 19 | | named Pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption in Sainte Marie and |
| 20 | | St. Valentine at The Bend from 1979 to 1981; he served as |
| 21 | | Pastor at St. Cecelia in Glen Carbon from 1981 to 1988, at |
| 22 | | Saint Ambrose in Godfrey from 1988 to 2004, and at Saint Jerome |
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| 1 | | in Troy from 2004 to 2009; and
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, Msgr. Mank was appointed Dean of the Alton Deanery |
| 3 | | in 1987 until his retirement in 2009; he served as Parochial |
| 4 | | Administrator of the Diocese from October 3, 1999 to December |
| 5 | | 19, 1999; he received the honor as Chaplain to his Holiness |
| 6 | | (Monsignor) by St. John Paul II on February 19, 2002; and
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| 7 | | WHEREAS, Msgr. Mank was preceded in death by his parents; |
| 8 | | his brother, Louis A. Mank; and his brothers-in-law, William |
| 9 | | Wadlow and Richard Geir; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, Msgr. Mank is survived by his sisters, Darlene |
| 11 | | Wadlow, and Mary Geir; his brothers, Billy (Connie) Mank, James |
| 12 | | (Lynne) Mank, and Timothy (Michelle) Mank; and many nieces, |
| 13 | | nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, and cousins; therefore, |
| 14 | | be it
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| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL |
| 16 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of |
| 17 | | Monsignor Virgil W. Mank, and extend our sincere condolences to |
| 18 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it |
| 19 | | further
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| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 21 | | presented to the family of Msgr. Mank as an expression of our |