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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Richard
4 Bruce "Butch" Bowen of Mt. Sterling, who passed away on March
5 3, 2007; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Butch Bowen was born November 30, 1980, in
7 Jacksonville, the son of Alan R. and Pamela Sue Pulse Bowen;
8 Mr. Bowen graduated from Brown County High School in 1999 and
9 attended John Wood Community College in Quincy on a baseball
10 scholarship; and
 
11     WHEREAS, He was a sports cameraman for KHQA Television for
12 the past year and had worked at U.S. Cellular in Quincy; he
13 trained horses and had a United States Trotting Association
14 license to race trotters and pacers; he also was a volunteer
15 fireman for the Mount Sterling Fire Department and a certified
16 storm chaser; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Butch Bowen was a member of First United Methodist
18 Church in Mount Sterling; he had trained at Hinton Rural Life
19 Center in Haysville, North Carolina for four years and served
20 as a counselor for two summers; he twice attended Catholic
21 Heart Workcamp; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, Butch Bowen served as an ISHA basketball referee
2 for high school games; he spent many volunteer hours serving
3 the youth of the Brown County community as a little league
4 umpire and coach and YMCA basketball coach; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Butch Bowen was preceded in death by his mother,
6 Pamela Sue Pulse Bowen; his grandfather, Bruce H. Pulse; his
7 uncle, Mike Pulse; and his cousin, Jeffrey Peacock; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Butch Bowen is survived by his father and
9 stepmother, Alan and Jacalyn Bowen; his grandparents, Virginia
10 C. Pulse and Harvey and Darlene Bowen; his stepgrandmother,
11 Marjorie Hyer; his brothers, Douglas Alan Bowen and David
12 Michael Brink; his sisters, Sarah Ann (husband, Blake)
13 Crenshaw, Pamela Jean Monroe, and Carol Jean Oeser; his aunts,
14 Patty Henken (husband, Paul), Peggy Huston (husband, Kevin),
15 and Carolyn Pulse; his uncles, Steve Pulse (companion,
16 Rosemary) and Larry Bowen (wife, Susan); his several cousins;
17 and his fiancee, Lynsey Edwards; therefore, be it
 
18     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
19 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
20 mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of
21 Richard Bruce "Butch" Bowen; and be it further
 
22     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be

 

 

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1 presented to the family of Butch Bowen as a symbol of our
2 sympathy.