Full Text of SR0261 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Martin "Marty" Ozinga III, who passed | 4 | | away on April 26, 2021; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Marty Ozinga earned a degree in psychology at | 6 | | Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan; he was married to | 7 | | his wife, Ruth, for 40 years until her passing in 2010, and | 8 | | together they raised their six sons; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Marty Ozinga began working for Ozinga, a | 10 | | fourth-generation family business best known for its red and | 11 | | white striped concrete mixer trucks, at age 15; he started as a | 12 | | $1-per-hour laborer in the company's first yard in Evergreen | 13 | | Park; by age 18, he was driving a ready-mix concrete truck for | 14 | | union wages; in 1973, he became general manager at age 23 and, | 15 | | in 1985, succeeded his father as president of Ozinga; along | 16 | | with his cousins Rich and Jim, he led the business through a | 17 | | period of
tremendous growth; this included expanding into the | 18 | | downtown Chicago
market where Ozinga supplied concrete for | 19 | | high-profile projects such as the construction of the new | 20 | | Comiskey Park (now Guaranteed Rate Field), the renovation of | 21 | | Soldier Field, and the production of more than 250,000 cubic | 22 | | yards of concrete for the Dan Ryan Expressway; he most | 23 | | recently served as the chairman of the board of the company; in |
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| 1 | | 2012, he handed over the operations of the family business to | 2 | | his six sons and their cousin, Jeff; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Marty Ozinga is survived by his wife, Melissa; | 4 | | his six sons and their wives; and his twenty-nine | 5 | | grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 6 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 7 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 8 | | Martin "Marty" Ozinga III and extend our sincere condolences | 9 | | to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be | 10 | | it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to the family Marty Ozinga as an expression of our | 13 | | deepest sympathy.
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