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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Ralf Seiffe of Wilmette, who passed away
4on September 1, 2011; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Ralf Rockford Seiffe graduated from the
6University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976, and was initiated into
7the Sigma Chi Fraternity; and
 
8    WHEREAS, His career began as a senior lending officer for
9the former Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company; in 1980, he and
10his brother, Roger, established Mail Sort, Inc., a mailing
11services company in the Chicago area; and
 
12    WHEREAS, He won the United States Postal Service Industry
13Excellence Award and, in 1989, marshaled the team that created
14ElectroCom Mail Systems; since 2002, he concentrated on
15developing private start-ups as an investor or as an early
16stage manager; and
 
17    WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his father, Warren
18Seiffe; and
 
19    WHEREAS, He was the husband of 28 years to Elizabeth Blatz,
20the father of Rhys and Reiker Seiffe, and is survived by his

 

 

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1mother, Joann Howells; and his brothers, Roger and Christopher
2Seiffe; therefore, be it
 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL
4ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
5his family and friends, the passing of Ralf Seiffe; and be it
6further
 
7    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
8presented to the family of Ralf Seiffe as a symbol of our
9sincere sympathy.