Full Text of SR0084 96th General Assembly
SR0084 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of Robert W. Brown of Morton, who passed | 4 |
| away on February 6, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born July 9, 1940, in Peoria to Genola | 6 |
| Naumann Brown and Edwin W. Brown Jr.; he married Barbara Kay | 7 |
| Black on January 3, 1960, in Indianapolis; he graduated from | 8 |
| Washington Community High School in 1958 and attended Purdue | 9 |
| University, where he was initiated into Phi Gamma Delta; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduating from Bradley University in 1963, | 11 |
| he worked for IBM and Howard Printing Company before starting | 12 |
| to work at Morton Federal Savings and Loan in 1973; he retired | 13 |
| from Bank Plus in 2001 as CEO and chairman of the board; he | 14 |
| earned an MBA from Bradley in 1989 and had been a member of the | 15 |
| Foster College of Business Administration's National Council | 16 |
| of Advisors since 1999; and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, He was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in | 18 |
| Washington, where he served as co-chair of the building | 19 |
| committee, two terms on the church council, and on the | 20 |
| long-range planning and finance committees; he was a member of | 21 |
| the Morton Chamber of Commerce, he chaired the Morton Pumpkin | 22 |
| Festival in 1976, was a member of chamber board of directors |
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| from 1989 to 1994, and received the chamber's Distinguished | 2 |
| Service Award in 2000; and
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| WHEREAS, He served on the board of the American Red Cross, | 4 |
| Central Illinois Chapter, from 1995 to 2005, as board chair | 5 |
| from 2001 to 2003, on the State Service Council from 2000 to | 6 |
| 2004, and one term on the national American Red Cross | 7 |
| nominating committee; he served as a member of the We Care | 8 |
| Foundation board, helped form the Morton Youth Baseball | 9 |
| Association and the Beta Phi chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at | 10 |
| Bradley; he was a member of Washington's 12th Man; he was an | 11 |
| honorary member of the Morton Rotary Club, a Paul Harris Fellow | 12 |
| and a member of Taylor Lodge 98 AF & AM in Washington; and
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| WHEREAS,
He was preceded in death by his father; and
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| WHEREAS, Robert Brown is survived by his wife, Barbara; his | 15 |
| mother, Genola Naumann Brown Edwards; his children, Robert W. | 16 |
| Brown Jr. (Sarah), Martin T. Brown (Julie), David A. Brown | 17 |
| (Suzanne), and Katherine B. Bowers (Scott); and his grandsons, | 18 |
| Steffan W. Brown, Mitchell R. Brown, Walker T. Brown, Andrew D. | 19 |
| Brown, Anthony S. Brown, Hunter T. Brown, Jonathon S. Bowers, | 20 |
| and Andrew J. Bowers; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 22 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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| his family and friends, the passing of Robert W. Brown; and be | 2 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 |
| presented to the family of Robert W. Brown as a symbol of our | 5 |
| sincere sympathy.
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