Full Text of HR0037 95th General Assembly
HR0037 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Keith | 4 |
| Page of Mahomet, who passed away on November 22, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born May 14, 1930, in Ripon, Wisconsin; his | 6 |
| parents were Kenneth C. and Frieda H. Rusch Page; he married | 7 |
| Mary Ellen Ward on Nov. 24, 1955, in Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS,
Mr. Page graduated from Tolono High School; he | 9 |
| graduated from the University of Illinois in 1952 with a | 10 |
| Bachelor's degree in speech education and in 1955 with a | 11 |
| Master's degree in education; and
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| WHEREAS, He served in the United States Army during the | 13 |
| Korean War from 1952 to 1954 and was stationed in Japan; he was | 14 |
| a theater and speech teacher at Edison Junior High School from | 15 |
| 1955 to 1969; Mr. Page taught English, theater, and radio-TV at | 16 |
| Champaign Centennial High School from 1969 to 1991 and helped | 17 |
| design the Centennial Auditorium Theater;
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| WHEREAS, He was the host of the "Marshall Magic Show" at | 19 |
| WCIA-TV and the host of the educational science show, "What's | 20 |
| New," at WILL-TV; he was a weatherman at WICD for 41 years; as | 21 |
| a film producer, he worked on the United Way documentary |
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| "Abandoned"; he received the "Bronze Telly" award in 2005 for | 2 |
| his work on the documentary about the Grand Canyon, which aired | 3 |
| on WICD; Mr. Page was a magician for most of his life; and he | 4 |
| was a member of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in | 5 |
| Mahomet; and
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| WHEREAS, Keith Page is survived by his loving wife, Mary | 7 |
| Ellen; his sons, Mark Allan Page, Ward C. Page, John William | 8 |
| Page, and Robert Kenneth Page; his daughter, Mary Ellen | 9 |
| Page-Dooley; his sisters, Charlene McQueen and Rita Lyn Frye; | 10 |
| his 11 grandchildren; and his two great-grandchildren; | 11 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 13 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 14 |
| mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of Keith | 15 |
| Page; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to the family of Keith Page as a symbol of our | 18 |
| sympathy.
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