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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.