Full Text of SR0750 95th General Assembly
SR0750 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
Robert E. Lee of Batavia, who passed away | 4 |
| on May 6, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was born on April 9, 1924 in Aurora; | 6 |
| his parents were Emmett Lehr Lee, M.D. and Sylvia Chenoweth | 7 |
| Lee; he married Geraldine (Matthews) on July 7, 1945; and
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee attended Aurora schools and | 9 |
| graduated from high school at Culver Military Academy in | 10 |
| Culver, Indiana in 1942; he obtained his bachelor's degree at | 11 |
| Ohio State University, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta | 12 |
| fraternity, and graduated in 1949; he graduated from the | 13 |
| University of Illinois College of Dentistry in 1953; and
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee served with pride and distinction as | 15 |
| a member of the Army Air Corps during World War II in the 8th | 16 |
| Air Force, 452nd Bomb Group based in England; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduating from the University of Illinois | 18 |
| College Of Dentistry, Robert E. Lee began his career as a | 19 |
| dentist in the same Aurora building where his father had | 20 |
| practiced medicine and his father-in-law had practiced | 21 |
| dentistry; he practiced in this building part-time until 1996; |
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| he also served as an associate professor in the department of | 2 |
| periodontics at the University of Illinois from 1964 to 1988; | 3 |
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was an active member of his | 5 |
| community; he was a member of the American Dental Association | 6 |
| and its local components; he served as a board member and | 7 |
| president of the Fox River Dental Society and the Aurora Dental | 8 |
| Society and was a member of the American Academy of | 9 |
| Periodontics; he was elected to the Batavia school board in | 10 |
| 1966 and served as its president from 1969 to 1972; he was also | 11 |
| a member and former board member of the St. Charles Country | 12 |
| Club; and
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was a long-time member of the | 14 |
| Congregational Church of Batavia; he enjoyed attending the | 15 |
| Saturday morning men's Bible study during his retirement years; | 16 |
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was preceded in death by his | 18 |
| daughter, Nancy Lee Sayers; his brother, Foster; his sister, | 19 |
| Sylvia; and his parents; and
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee is survived by his wife; his sons, | 21 |
| Robert Mark Lee, D.D.S. and William Emmett Lee; his | 22 |
| grandchildren, Matthew J. Sayers, Julie A. Sayers, Robert W. |
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| Lee, and Michael E. Lee; and his daughter-in-law, Wendy Lee; | 2 |
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| WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee will be remembered by all who knew | 4 |
| and loved him as a man who was always ready with a joke, a lover | 5 |
| of big band music, a great dancer, and as a man who loved his | 6 |
| family dearly; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 8 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 9 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Robert E. Lee; and be it | 10 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to the family of Robert E. Lee as an expression of | 13 |
| our sympathy.
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