Full Text of SR0240 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Donald R. Shaner of Wheaton, who passed | 4 | | away on March 10, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Donald Shaner was born in 1926 in DeKalb and lived | 6 | | the majority of his life in Wheaton; he graduated from Wheaton | 7 | | Community
High School and served in the United States
Navy in | 8 | | the Philippines during World War II; he married Twylah Havens | 9 | | in 1948 and graduated from
the University of Illinois with a | 10 | | bachelor's degree in mechanical
engineering in 1950; the | 11 | | following year he earned his master's degree in the same | 12 | | subject from the University of Illinois; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, After college, Donald Shaner worked as an engineer | 14 | | for 3M in Minnesota; he then returned to the Chicago area and | 15 | | worked as an engineer at the Elgin Watch Co.; he also worked in | 16 | | management for the Skokie-based International Mineral & | 17 | | Chemical; in the mid-1960s, he joined Warren King and | 18 | | Associates as a consultant, and, in 1968, he started his own | 19 | | consulting firm; after his retirement in 1993, he served on the | 20 | | Wheaton Warrenville
School Board for 4 years from 1997 to 2001; | 21 | | and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Donald Shaner was preceded in death by his wife of |
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Twylah and his brother, Herbert Shaner, Jr.; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Donald Shaner is survived by his brother, Victor | 3 | | Shaner;
his daughter, Sandra (Wendell) Grogan; his son,
Chris | 4 | | (Sue) Shaner; and his 4
grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 6 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of | 7 | | Donald R. Shaner, and extend our sincere condolences to his | 8 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 9 | | further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to the family of Donald Shaner as an expression of | 12 | | our deepest sympathy.
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