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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| were saddened to learn of the death of J. Hobart Lock Jr. of |
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| Avon on December 21, 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Lock was born on November 19, 1817 in Canton, |
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| the son of J. Hobart Sr. and Ethel Gray Lock; and
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| WHEREAS, He married Marian R. Taylor on November 29, 1943 |
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| in Canton; she preceded him in death on December 11, 1998; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Lock was raised in Joshua Township, moved to |
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| rural Avon in 1938 and graduated from Fairview schools; and
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| WHEREAS, An Army veteran of World War II, he served with |
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| the 104th Division in Europe; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Lock farmed from 1946 to 1984; he was a member |
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| of the Presbyterian Church in Prairie City, where he was an |
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| elder and Sunday school teacher; he was a director of the |
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| Fulton County Farm Bureau board and was a treasurer of the |
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| Fulton County F.S. board; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of J. Hobart Lock Jr. will be deeply |
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| felt by many, especially his two sons, Terry Dean (and Cherie) |
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| Lock and James Taylor (and Sally) Lock; his daughter, Carolyn |
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| Jane (and Don) Moffitt; his brothers, Kenneth Lock and Dean |
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| Lock; his 10 grandchildren; and his two great-grandchildren; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death |
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| by his parents; and a brother; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of |
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