Full Text of HR1234 93rd General Assembly
HR1234 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois learned with deep regret of the death of | 4 |
| United States Marine Corps Sergeant Benjamin Kent "Mudcat" | 5 |
| Smith on September 22, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Sergeant Smith, 24, was killed in action in the | 7 |
| Al-Anbar Province of Iraq; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, He was born on June 7, 1980 in DuQuoin to James D. | 9 |
| and Kimberlee S. (Cowan) Smith, and was the oldest of three | 10 |
| children; he was a 1999 graduate of Carterville High School | 11 |
| where he participated and lettered in track and football for | 12 |
| four years; he had been a place kicker for Carterville High | 13 |
| School, and was on the 1996 Carterville High School State | 14 |
| Football Class 3A championship team; and | 15 |
| WHEREAS, He joined the Marines on June 8, 1999 and was | 16 |
| stationed in Twentynine Palms, CA at the Marine Corps Air | 17 |
| Ground Combat Center as a Tank Commander for 3rd Platoon; he | 18 |
| was on his second tour of duty in Iraq, deployed on February | 19 |
| 29, 2004 with the 7th Marines 1st Tank Battalion, Charlie | 20 |
| Company; he was expected to return home October 10, 2004; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, He was an avid outdoorsman who loved to go | 22 |
| hunting, fishing, and going to Disneyland with his fiancee | 23 |
| Kerri; he also enjoyed playing pool, going to rodeos, camping, | 24 |
| and listening to country music; his greatest joy was coming | 25 |
| home to spend time with his family and friends; and | 26 |
| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his great-grandparents | 27 |
| and his uncle, Richard Cowan; and | 28 |
| WHEREAS, The passing of Sergeant Benjamin Kent Smith will | 29 |
| be deeply felt by many, especially his parents, James and |
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| Kimberlee Smith; his sister and brother-in-law, Jamie and Josh | 2 |
| Qualls; his brother, Jacob Smith; his grandparents, David | 3 |
| (Bones) and Mary Smith, Helen Sue Cowan, Robert (Cusser) and | 4 |
| Louise Cowan; his fiancee, Kerri Ann Blum; his nieces and | 5 |
| nephew, Kaitlin, Bethany, Caleb, and Kara; his aunts and | 6 |
| uncles, Scott and Judy Houston, Jeff and Diane Eaton, Randy and | 7 |
| Patricia Church, Anita Cowan, Bob and Kristine Adams, Yevette | 8 |
| Johnson, Sherra and Dan English, Nancy and Donald Howell, | 9 |
| Carolyn and Tim Hess, Jeff and Erica Dailey, Teresa Charles, | 10 |
| John Caudill, Lewis Skelton, and Melissa and Dave Draper; his | 11 |
| cousins, Robert Houston, Andrew Houston, Rebecca Green, | 12 |
| Sergeant Michael Eaton U.S.A.F., Clifford Eaton, Raney Church, | 13 |
| Suzanne Drake, Danielle Cowan, Robert Cowan, Phillip Cowan, | 14 |
| Erin Adams, Keely Adams, and Tabatha Adams, as well as several | 15 |
| other cousins; his godfather, Kent (Toby) Tyler; his | 16 |
| goddaughter, Tori Jarvis; and many other loving aunts and | 17 |
| uncles; therefore, be it | 18 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 19 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 20 |
| together with his family, friends, and the citizens of this | 21 |
| State and this great nation, we mourn the passing of United | 22 |
| States Marine Corps Sergeant Benjamin Kent Smith, and extend to | 23 |
| his family and friends our sincerest condolences; and be it | 24 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 26 |
| presented to the family of United States Marine Corps Sergeant | 27 |
| Benjamin Kent Smith as an expression of our deepest sympathy.
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