Full Text of SR0827 96th General Assembly
SR0827 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
David Pearson Thorpe, who passed away on | 4 |
| April 16, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, David Thorpe grew up in Pittsburgh as the son of a | 6 |
| steelworker; as a young boy, he wanted to become a | 7 |
| metallurgical engineer; he graduated from the University of | 8 |
| Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in engineering; he then | 9 |
| went to work for a steel company in Titusville, Pennsylvania, | 10 |
| where he lived with his wife and children for 14 years; and
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| WHEREAS, In the 1970s, David Thorpe moved with his family | 12 |
| to Auburn Heights, Michigan, where he worked for another steel | 13 |
| company for 7 years before taking a job with Republic Steel in | 14 |
| Chicago and moving to Glen Ellyn in 1980; he retired from | 15 |
| Republic Steel after many years of service; and
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| WHEREAS, In the 1980s, David Thorpe began volunteering as a | 17 |
| youth counselor at St. Thomas United Methodist Church in Glen | 18 |
| Ellyn; he led several mission trips to Ohio to help remodel | 19 |
| homes for the elderly and to Honduras to build homes and | 20 |
| schools; during that time, he was also a volunteer with the | 21 |
| Midwest Mission Distribution Center in Chatham, where he | 22 |
| collected and helped ship emergency supplies to flood-stricken |
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| areas across the Midwest for many years; and
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| WHEREAS, For the last several years, David Thorpe was a | 3 |
| participant in the Glen Ellyn/Wheaton CROP WALK, a 6K walk | 4 |
| sponsored by Church World Service to raise funds to fight world | 5 |
| hunger; and
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| WHEREAS, David Thorpe was employed with the DuPage | 7 |
| Community Clinic for many years, helping those who didn't have | 8 |
| health insurance or money for medications get the care they | 9 |
| needed; and | 10 |
| WHEREAS, David Thorpe is survived by his wife of 54 years, | 11 |
| Norma; his sons, William and Daniel; his daughters, Rebecca | 12 |
| Flood and Polly Acton; his sister, Marjorie Worst; and his 9 | 13 |
| grandchildren; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 15 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 16 |
| her family and friends, the passing of David Pearson Thorpe; | 17 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the family of David Thorpe as an expression of our | 20 |
| sympathy.
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