Full Text of HR0307 94th General Assembly
HR0307 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois were deeply saddened to learn of the death of | 4 |
| Olie L. Musgrave of Marion on April 6, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Musgrave was born February 15, 1934, in | 6 |
| Berryville, just outside of Jonesboro, the son of Willis Ervil | 7 |
| and Trula Ozell (Edmonds) Musgrave; he was married to Betty | 8 |
| June McNail at Coal Bank Springs Baptist Church, near Crab | 9 |
| Orchard, on September 1, 1956; and
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| WHEREAS, He graduated from Anna-Jonesboro High School and | 11 |
| Draughon's Business College in Paducah, Kentucky; he started | 12 |
| his professional career with Household Finance before joining | 13 |
| the Army in 1956; he worked for Household Finance again in | 14 |
| Indianapolis after his discharge in 1958; and
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| WHEREAS, He and his wife returned to Southern Illinois in | 16 |
| 1960 when he took a job in the installment loan department of | 17 |
| the Bank of Marion, where he rose to the position of bank | 18 |
| president in the 1970s; he served as executive vice-president | 19 |
| of Peoples Bank in Marion when the 1982 tornado hit and dropped | 20 |
| a car upside down on his desk; during the rebuilding, he | 21 |
| oversaw that bank holding company's operations in Christopher | 22 |
| at the Rend Lake Bank; in 1983, First Bank and Trust Co. of | 23 |
| Mount Vernon hired him as their new president and CEO, where he | 24 |
| stayed for just over a decade until Mercantile Bank bought the | 25 |
| institution; he then worked briefly as president of Heartland | 26 |
| Savings and Loan in Herrin before deciding that Southern | 27 |
| Illinois needed a new bank; in 1994, he began organizing the | 28 |
| South Pointe Bank, which opened its doors in the spring of | 29 |
| 1995, and has since grown to seven locations in five | 30 |
| communities in Southern Illinois, plus a loan origination | 31 |
| office in Paducah, Kentucky, where the bank holding company has | 32 |
| just purchased land for a new bank; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a longtime member of Second Baptist Church | 2 |
| in Marion, where he served in various capacities, but | 3 |
| particularly as a Sunday school teacher over the years; and
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| WHEREAS, Active in community affairs in the various places | 5 |
| where he worked and lived, he was honored as a "Paul Harris | 6 |
| Fellow" while he was a member of the Rotary Club of Mount | 7 |
| Vernon; since the 1970s, he provided leadership to community | 8 |
| organizations, including the Chambers of Commerce and Rotary | 9 |
| Clubs of Marion and Mount Vernon, Southern Illinois | 10 |
| Incorporated, the Marion Civic Center Foundation, which he | 11 |
| helped found, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Illinois Bankers | 12 |
| Association, and the Jackson County Business Development Corp; | 13 |
| while a resident of Mount Vernon, he was elected twice as a | 14 |
| member of the board of trustees for Rend Lake College; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents, a | 16 |
| stillborn brother, and one niece, Shirley Gibbs; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Olie L. Musgrave is felt by all who | 18 |
| knew and loved him, especially his wife of 48 years, Betty; his | 19 |
| son, Jon Musgrave; his two sisters and brothers-in-law, Lorene | 20 |
| and Dr. Jean Jones and Wilma and Paul Davis; his brother and | 21 |
| sister-in-law, Ira Willis and Freda Musgrave; and his two | 22 |
| nephews and four nieces; on his wife's side, he is survived by | 23 |
| two brothers-in-law, Bob McNail (wife Sue) and Don McNail (wife | 24 |
| Mary), as well as four nieces and one nephew; he is also | 25 |
| survived by numerous great-nephews and nieces on both sides of | 26 |
| his family, plus many other relatives and friends; therefore, | 27 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 29 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 30 |
| we mourn the passing of Olie L. Musgrave and extend our | 31 |
| sincerest condolences to his family, friends, and community; |
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| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 4 |
| sympathy.
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