Full Text of SR0520 96th General Assembly
SR0520 96TH 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 John Mendenhall Sr. of Godfrey, who | 4 |
| passed away on November 16, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, John Howard Mendenhall Sr. was born on October 27, | 6 |
| 1918, in Chicago Heights, the son of John Franklin and Ethel | 7 |
| (Evans) Mendenhall; he married the former Alice L. Reid on June | 8 |
| 20, 1942, in Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, He received a B.S. in metallurgical engineering | 10 |
| from the University of Illinois; he was employed at Olin Brass | 11 |
| as a metallurgical engineer for more than 40 years, as a brass | 12 |
| alloys expert, retiring in 1985; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a member of the Community Congregational | 14 |
| UCC in Godfrey for many years and then transferred membership | 15 |
| to the Evangelical UCC in Godfrey, where he sang with his wife | 16 |
| in the choir; he was a member of the American Society for | 17 |
| Testing and Materials (ASTM), which he joined in 1961 and | 18 |
| became a fellow in their society; he loved to golf, was an avid | 19 |
| reader, worked as a volunteer at the Crisis Food Center for 20 | 20 |
| years, and was a loyal Chicago White Sox fan; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents and one |
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| son, Thomas John Mendenhall; and
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| WHEREAS, John Mendenhall Sr. is survived by his wife, | 3 |
| Alice; his daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Jack Wepler; | 4 |
| his sons and daughters-in-law, Doug and Stephanie Mendenhall | 5 |
| and John and Susan Mendenhall; his grandchildren, Travis and | 6 |
| Todd Zimmerman, Jeremy Wepler, Jessica and Christopher | 7 |
| Mendenhall, and Jacob and Alex Levering; his great-grandson, | 8 |
| Tristan Zimmerman; and his sisters and a brother-in-law, | 9 |
| Dorothy Peebles and Gladys and Robert Tuggle; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 11 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 12 |
| his family and friends, the passing of John Mendenhall Sr.; and | 13 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to the family of John Mendenhall Sr. as a symbol of | 16 |
| our sincere sympathy.
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