Full Text of HR1074 93rd General Assembly
HR1074 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 remember the passing of Gordon H. Larsen of | 4 |
| Lake in the Hills on November 24, 2003 with great sadness; and
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| WHEREAS, Gordon H. Larsen was born in Milwaukee April 19, | 6 |
| 1921; he served four years in the U.S. Army during World War | 7 |
| II; a member of the "Greatest Generation", Gordon H. Larsen was | 8 |
| in the fourth wave of infantry men at D-Day that invaded the | 9 |
| Nazi stronghold at Normandy Beach; he rescued wounded American | 10 |
| soldiers, as well as liberating the French when his regiment, | 11 |
| the 28th Infantry, marched into Paris; and
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| WHEREAS, In McHenry County, he was active in veteran | 13 |
| activities and even donated his 1943 Ford Jeep to the VFW; and
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| WHEREAS, He was an entrepreneur, starting his own trucking | 15 |
| company in 1947; and
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| WHEREAS, Gordon and Joan, his wife of 57 years, moved to | 17 |
| Lake in the Hills in 1963 to a farm north of which is the bank | 18 |
| he later founded in 1995; he was Chairman of the Board of the | 19 |
| Illinois State Bank until his death in a car accident on | 20 |
| slippery roads November 24, 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, During his life in Lake in the Hills, he donated | 22 |
| 50 acres of valuable land to the Village of Lake in the Hills, | 23 |
| School District 300, the Sanitary District, and McHenry County | 24 |
| Conservation District; he received the "Certificate of | 25 |
| Appreciation" in grateful acknowledgement of outstanding | 26 |
| service to the Lake in the Hills Jayceettes; and
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| WHEREAS, He served on the Lake in the Hills Economic | 28 |
| Development Commission and was a Charter Member of the | 29 |
| Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Rotary; he was named the Vern |
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| Harnish "Business Person of the Year" in 1996; he received the | 2 |
| Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce award in 1997; | 3 |
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| WHEREAS, Gordon and his wife, Joan, were honored for their | 5 |
| 20 years of contributions to the "Food Basket Project" in 1998; | 6 |
| in 2001, Gordon Larsen was designated "Mr. Lake in the Hills" | 7 |
| by the business community; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 10 |
| mourn the passing of Gordon Larsen, and we honor the memory of | 11 |
| an outstanding businessman and citizen who made tremendous | 12 |
| contributions to his country and his community; and be it | 13 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to the family of Gordon Larsen as an expression of | 16 |
| sincere respect for his memory.
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