Full Text of SR1250 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of The Very Reverend Father Gus Franklin | 4 | | III, S.S.C. of Springfield, who passed away on May 3, 2020; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, The Very Reverend Father Gus Franklin was born to | 6 | | Ruth and Gus Franklin II in Bellevue, Kentucky on January 28, | 7 | | 1938; he graduated from Bellevue High School in 1955 and | 8 | | received his bachelor's degree from Eastern Kentucky State | 9 | | College in 1959; he was named in the "Who's Who?" in the | 10 | | National Students in American Universities and Colleges the | 11 | | same year; he continued graduate studies at Indiana University, | 12 | | where he received a Master of Science in Education; he also | 13 | | attended the University of Illinois, receiving a master's | 14 | | degree in mathematics in 1960; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, The Very Reverend Father Gus Franklin entered | 16 | | Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin in | 17 | | 1964 and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in Theology, Cum | 18 | | Laude in 1967; he was ordained a Priest on December 9, 1967 for | 19 | | the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield; he served several | 20 | | parishes during his career in the Diocese of Springfield and | 21 | | the Diocese of Quincy, retiring as Rector from the Church of | 22 | | St. Andrew the Apostle in Peoria in 1998; after retirement, he | 23 | | served as a Canon for the Cathedral in Springfield and |
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| 1 | | frequently as a supply priest in the Diocese as needed; he was | 2 | | a bi-vocational Episcopal Priest for over thirty years, serving | 3 | | as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of | 4 | | Illinois and Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield; he | 5 | | also taught at Bellevue High School for a year; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Very Reverend Father Gus Franklin was | 7 | | passionate about organ music; he was an active member and past | 8 | | president of the American Theater Organ Society and a founding | 9 | | member of the ITOS; he continued in that role at the Cathedral | 10 | | where he was the Chairman of the Musical Arts Committee; he was | 11 | | also a member of the Springfield Choral Society for many years; | 12 | | and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The Very Reverend Father Gus Franklin celebrated | 14 | | the 50th Anniversary of his Ordination to the Priesthood in | 15 | | 2017 at the Cathedral of Saint Paul the Apostle; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, The Very Reverend Father Gus Franklin is survived | 17 | | by his brother, Gary (Joyce); and his two nieces, Melissa | 18 | | Franklin and Carol Lee Barber; therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 20 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
| 21 | | The Very Reverend Father Gus Franklin III, S.S.C. and extend | 22 | | our sincere
condolences to his family, friends, and all who |
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| 1 | | knew and loved
him; and be it further
| 2 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
| 3 | | presented to the family of The Very Reverend Father Gus | 4 | | Franklin as an expression of
our deepest sympathy.
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