Full Text of SR0515 95th General Assembly
SR0515 95TH 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 Ernest A. Tosovsky Jr., of Edwardsville, | 4 |
| who passed away January 18, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Ernest A. Tosovsky Jr. was born October 31, 1921, | 6 |
| in Edwardsville to Ernest and Mary Meek Tosovsky Sr.; and
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| WHEREAS, He married Betty Faye Rohrkaste on August 29, 1946 | 8 |
| and she passed away on September 14, 1983; he later married | 9 |
| Virginia Lee Hermann on September 1, 1984 and she passed away | 10 |
| on June 9, 2000; and
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| WHEREAS, He was the former president and chairman of the | 12 |
| board of Home Nursery Inc.; he was past president of the | 13 |
| Illinois State Nurseryman Association, American Landscape | 14 |
| Nursery Association, and Madison-Sinclair Nursery Association; | 15 |
| he was a member of the board of directors of the Voluntary | 16 |
| Purchasing Group, and a member of the Greater St. Louis Nursery | 17 |
| and Landscape Association; the Voluntary Purchasing Group | 18 |
| established an endowment fund for him with the Horticultural | 19 |
| Research Institute; and
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| WHEREAS, He was past president of the Edwardsville Rotary | 21 |
| Club and a Paul Harris Fellow, a member of the board of |
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| directors of the Edwardsville YWCA, a member of the Illinois | 2 |
| State Florists Association, and the Edwardsville Glen Carbon | 3 |
| Chamber of Commerce; he was chairman of the Edwardsville Park | 4 |
| and Recreation Board, served on the advisory board for the Dean | 5 |
| of Agriculture at the University of Illinois, was chairman of | 6 |
| the Agricultural Nursery and Greenhouse Advisory Committee for | 7 |
| the American Farm Bureau Federation, and served on the | 8 |
| Edwardsville School Board; he was a member of St. Mary's | 9 |
| Catholic Church and St. Boniface Catholic Church in | 10 |
| Edwardsville; and
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| WHEREAS, Ernest Tosovsky Jr. was preceded in death by his | 12 |
| wives; his parents; one brother, Edward Tosovsky; and one | 13 |
| sister, Dorothy Donner; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS, Ernest Tosovsky Jr. is survived by his son, | 15 |
| Timothy Tosovsky and wife, Sherry; his stepson, Bill Hermann; | 16 |
| his daughters, Nancy Pech and husband, Gene, and Barbara Wiman | 17 |
| and husband, Fred; his stepdaughters, Janice Burklow, and Cindy | 18 |
| Hoog and husband, Ed; his grandchildren, Eric Wiman, Aaron | 19 |
| Wiman, Andrea Garner, Luke Wiman, Molly Wiman, and Amanda | 20 |
| Wiman, Danielle Pech and Michael Pech, and Tim and Taylor | 21 |
| Tosovsky; his eleven great-grandchildren; his six | 22 |
| stepgreat-grandchildren; and his brother, Charles Tosovsky and | 23 |
| wife, Jean; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 2 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 3 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Ernest Tosovsky Jr.; and | 4 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 |
| presented to the family of Ernest Tosovsky Jr. as a symbol of | 7 |
| our sincere sympathy.
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