Full Text of HJR0090 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Richard Clayton was born in his grandfather's home | 3 | | in Pocahontas on July 4, 1930; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Coming from a very poor background, Richard | 5 | | Clayton started working at the age of 10 to
support his | 6 | | grandparents; in 1943, he worked at the Hartfield Show Tannery | 7 | | for $0.82 cents an hour; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Richard Clayton graduated from Pocahontas High | 9 | | School, where he was a star basketball player; he enrolled in | 10 | | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, but his family's | 11 | | finances did not allow him to stay
and earn a degree; he | 12 | | enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1950, achieving | 13 | | the rank of sergeant and
serving honorably until his discharge | 14 | | in 1952; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, After being discharged from the Marines, Richard | 16 | | Clayton worked as a carpenter at Granite City
Steel in | 17 | | Collinsville; he was a construction foreman for various | 18 | | companies until becoming a
superintendent with Gorman & Sons in | 19 | | East St. Louis; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Richard Clayton married Marjory Ellen Hicks in | 21 | | December of 1953; Marjory's
career spanned 31 years teaching at |
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| 1 | | Highland Junior and Senior High Schools; Richard built a house | 2 | | for his family on four acres of a former corn field along Route | 3 | | 160
between Highland and Grantfork, where he and his wife | 4 | | raised two children, Warren and Patty; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Richard Clayton's career became focused on | 6 | | highway bridge construction in Southern
Illinois, working for | 7 | | the Bituminous Fuel Oil Company in Collinsville, and later as
a | 8 | | bridge inspector for the State of Illinois for a short time; | 9 | | and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Richard Clayton then worked with the Hoefken | 11 | | Brothers in Belleville for 10 years; when the owner, John | 12 | | Hoefken, left the company and started Mississippi Valley | 13 | | Materials, Richard joined him and finished his career at the | 14 | | new company; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, In 1985, Richard Clayton took early retirement and | 16 | | started Chipwood Acres Nursery with his
wife on their property | 17 | | along Route 160; it was a successful tree and plant nursery for | 18 | | 20
years where they shared their landscaping talents with the | 19 | | local community by
providing landscaping design, trees, | 20 | | foundation shrubs, flowering perennial and annual plants for | 21 | | sale,
and personal landscape advice that you could not get | 22 | | anywhere else; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Richard Clayton and Marjory retired from the | 2 | | nursery in 2005; Marjory passed away in April of 2017; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Richard Clayton remains on their acreage along | 4 | | Route 160 still maintaining his green thumb; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 6 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE | 7 | | CONCURRING HEREIN, that, in honor of his contribution to the | 8 | | betterment of the State, we designate the bridge on Route 160
| 9 | | between Highland and Grantfork in Madison County crossing over | 10 | | I-70 as the "Richard Clayton
Bridge-Southern Illinois Bridge | 11 | | Builder"; and be it further | 12 | | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation | 13 | | is requested to erect at suitable locations,
consistent with | 14 | | State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs | 15 | | giving notice of the name
"Richard Clayton Bridge-Southern | 16 | | Illinois Bridge Builder"; and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That suitable
copies of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to Richard Clayton, Highland Mayor Joseph R. | 19 | | Michaelis, and the Secretary of Transportation.
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