Full Text of SR0516 95th General Assembly
SR0516 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 Reverend John Franklin Simpson Jr., of | 4 |
| Moro, who passed away on January 18, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, John Franklin Simpson Jr. was born on September 2, | 6 |
| 1924, in Alton, the son of John F. and Helen (Everett) Simpson | 7 |
| Sr.;
he married the former Viola Baker on September 30, 1945, | 8 |
| in Cottage Hills; and
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| WHEREAS, He served his country from 1942 to 1945 in the | 10 |
| United States Army; he worked in the shipping department at the | 11 |
| Olin Corporation for more than 43 years, retiring in June of | 12 |
| 1983; and
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| WHEREAS, He was an ordained minister and the pastor of the | 14 |
| Community Church in West Alton, Missouri for nine years; he | 15 |
| would fill in for local ministers through the Association of | 16 |
| Alton Baptist Ministers; and he loved to study and read about | 17 |
| the Lord; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents; three | 19 |
| brothers, Melvin, Buddy, and Floyd Simpson; and one sister, | 20 |
| Pearl Graham; and
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| WHEREAS, Reverend Simpson is survived by his wife, Viola; | 2 |
| his children and their spouses, Mike Simpson, Dannie Simpson, | 3 |
| James and Cindy Simpson, Rhonda and Ed Tobias, and Karen and | 4 |
| the Reverend Terry McKinzie; his nine grandchildren, Shawna, | 5 |
| John, Todd, Tom, Katie, and Jamie Simpson and Megan, Ashley, | 6 |
| and Zachary McKinzie; his great-grandchild, Ross; his sister | 7 |
| and brother-in-law, Thelma and Jerry King; his brother, Marvin | 8 |
| Simpson; and his many nieces and nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 10 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 11 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Reverend John Franklin | 12 |
| Simpson Jr.; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the family of Reverend John Franklin Simpson Jr. | 15 |
| as a symbol of our sincere sympathy.
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