Full Text of SR0504 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Robert Spencer Fleming of Moline, who | 4 | | passed away on August 25, 2021; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Robert Fleming was born in Riverside, California | 6 | | to Wilbur and Dorothy (Snell) Fleming on October 23, 1927; he | 7 | | graduated from Denison University; he attended Ohio State | 8 | | University Law School; he married Caroline Warfield in Moline | 9 | | on July 29, 1952; he served in the U.S. Navy during both World | 10 | | War II and the Korean War; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Robert Fleming worked as an executive at Deere | 12 | | and Company for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1982; he | 13 | | then served as a municipal court magistrate in Iowa for three | 14 | | years; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Robert Fleming was a member of the First | 16 | | Congregational Church in Moline, the Moline Rotary Club, and | 17 | | the Wabaningo Community Church in Whitehall, Michigan, where | 18 | | he served as treasurer and greeter; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Robert Fleming enjoyed spending the winter | 20 | | holidays in Sarasota, Florida, and summers at the family | 21 | | cottage in Sylvan Beach, Michigan; he spent his summers |
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| 1 | | playing tennis and badminton, swimming in Lake Michigan, and | 2 | | playing golf, which he took up after retirement; he got his | 3 | | first hole-in-one at age 75 and continued to play into his late | 4 | | 80s; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Robert Fleming is survived by his wife of 69 | 6 | | years, Caroline; his four children and their spouses, Susan | 7 | | Schuler, Mary and Scott Francis, William and Sufia Fleming, | 8 | | and David Fleming and fiancée Jacklyn Headrick; his four | 9 | | grandchildren, Jillian Schuler and her husband Walter Beer, | 10 | | T.J. Schuler, Bobby Francis, and Sarah Francis; and his | 11 | | brother and sister-in-law, Richard and Mary Fleming; | 12 | | therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 14 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 15 | | Robert Spencer Fleming and extend our sincere condolences to | 16 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 17 | | further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to the family of Robert Fleming as an expression of | 20 | | our deepest sympathy.
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