Full Text of SR0698 94th General Assembly
SR0698 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Robert Francis "RT" Tracy | 4 |
| of Mount Sterling on Sunday, March 26, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on August 8, 1924, in Jerseyville to | 6 |
| Frank and Ellen Elizabeth "Nellie" Massey Tracy; he attended | 7 |
| Jersey County High School and earned a bachelor's degree in | 8 |
| dairy technology from the University of Illinois at | 9 |
| Urbana-Champaign in 1948; he was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of | 10 |
| World War II, serving from 1943 to 1945 on the USS General Omar | 11 |
| Bundy; he obtained a private pilot's license in 1948; and
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| WHEREAS, He married Dorothy Curtin in 1949 in Stonington; | 13 |
| he worked for Prairie Farms Dairy as an assistant manager in | 14 |
| Champaign and Henry from 1949 to 1952 and an assistant general | 15 |
| manager and sales manager in Mount Sterling until 1956; he then | 16 |
| served as general manager of Norris Dairy Products in Dallas | 17 |
| before returning to Prairie Farms in Mount Sterling in 1958; he | 18 |
| and his wife founded Associated Dairy Products, later renamed | 19 |
| Dot Foods, Inc., in Mount Sterling in 1960; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Tracy was a member of Holy Family Church in | 21 |
| Mount Sterling, where he served as a trustee; the Mount | 22 |
| Sterling Knights of Columbus; Rolling Greens Golf Club; Mount | 23 |
| Sterling American Legion Post 374; the Beardstown Elks Club; | 24 |
| and the Mount Sterling Rotary Club; and
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| WHEREAS, He was named Mount Sterling Chamber of Commerce | 26 |
| Citizen of the Year in 1986 and the Distinguished Citizen of | 27 |
| the Year in 1996 by the Mississippi Valley Council of Boy | 28 |
| Scouts of America; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Mr. Tracy has been deeply felt by | 30 |
| many, especially his wife, Dorothy; his sons, Donald (wife, |
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| Wanda), Patrick, Thomas (wife, Catherine), James (wife, Jil), | 2 |
| John (wife, Linda), Joseph (wife, Jill), and Richard (wife, | 3 |
| Adina); his daughters, Anne (husband, Ray) Capestrain, Jean | 4 |
| (husband, Mike) Buckley, Susan (husband, Scott) Stamerjohn, | 5 |
| Mary (husband, Jay) Sullivan, and Jane (husband, Fred) Schmidt; | 6 |
| his 41 grandchildren; his sister, Mary Ellen Tracy; and his | 7 |
| brother, Bill Tracy; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 9 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 10 |
| Robert F. Tracy, and we extend our sincere condolences to his | 11 |
| family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 12 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 15 |
| sympathy.
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