Full Text of SR0816 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 M. Dennis Turner of Danville, who | 4 | | passed away on January 26, 2022; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner was born to A. Martin and Beulah | 6 | | Radebaugh Turner in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 9, 1932; | 7 | | he attended Danville High School, Danville Junior College, and | 8 | | Eastern Illinois University; he served in the U.S. Army during | 9 | | the Korean War; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner returned to the family farm after | 11 | | his military service; he expanded the farm's dairy herd and | 12 | | became more involved with Prairie Farms Dairy, the cooperative | 13 | | through which the farm's milk production had been marketed for | 14 | | several years; during the years that he had a dairy herd, | 15 | | several hundred Danville school children toured the dairy | 16 | | operation at the family farm; he also endeavored to use | 17 | | conservation practices when farming the Sesquicentennial | 18 | | Family Farm soil to leave it better than when he began his | 19 | | tenure as the farm's steward; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner was elected to the Board of | 21 | | Directors of Prairie Farms Dairy and served for 21 years; he | 22 | | also represented Prairie Farms on the Board of Directors of |
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| 1 | | the Illinois American Dairy Association; during this time, he | 2 | | was asked to serve on the Vermilion County Farm Bureau Board; | 3 | | he was also asked to serve on the building committee for the | 4 | | new Vermilion County Center for Agriculture when it was built; | 5 | | and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner served as secretary of the Water | 7 | | Authority Board and was one of three Blount Township citizens | 8 | | to be appointed to serve as a trustee of the Blount Township | 9 | | Water Authority when it was organized in 1994; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner was a member of Farmers Chapel | 11 | | Church, and he served as treasurer and trustee chairman of the | 12 | | Building Fund; he was also a member of the Robert Wurtsbaugh | 13 | | Chapter of Korean War Veterans Association, where he served on | 14 | | the honor guard; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner was immensely proud of his family; | 16 | | and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner was preceded in death by his | 18 | | parents; his brother, Dale (Jackie); and his infant twins, | 19 | | Norman and Norma; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Dennis Turner is survived by his wife, Mabel; his | 21 | | sons, Robert (Robin) Turner and Steven (Tara Bray) Turner; his |
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| 1 | | daughter, Donna Carrigan; his grandsons, Chris (Katie), Tyler, | 2 | | and Travis Turner; his granddaughters, Kayla (Alex) Rosdail, | 3 | | Kelsie (Tyler) Cunningham, and Lacey (Aaron) Fessler; his | 4 | | great-grandchildren, Hayleigh Fessler, Hayden Fessler, Myla | 5 | | Cunningham, and Austin Cunningham; his several nieces and | 6 | | nephews; and his good friend, Jerry Edwards; therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 8 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
| 9 | | M. Dennis Turner and extend our sincere
condolences to his | 10 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved
him; and be it | 11 | | further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
| 13 | | presented to the family of Dennis Turner as an expression of
| 14 | | our deepest sympathy.
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