Full Text of SR0830 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Giles Ronald Weigandt of Moline, who | 4 | | passed away on July 6, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Giles Weigandt was born in Moline on August 7, | 6 | | 1932 to Arnold and Hannah Schiller Weigandt; he served in the | 7 | | United States Army during the Korean War from 1953 to 1955; he | 8 | | graduated from Augustana College in Rock Island in 1956 with a | 9 | | master's degree in psychology; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Giles Weigandt worked as a mortuary assistant for | 11 | | Esterdahl Mortuary and Crematory, Ltd. in Moline from 1985 to | 12 | | 2010; prior to that, from 1957 to 1973, he was the manager of | 13 | | Weigandt's Meat Market and Specialty Store in Moline; he was | 14 | | also a well-known handwriting analyst and consultant to | 15 | | lawyers, police, and the public; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Giles Weigandt studied commercial art and | 17 | | graduated from the Art Instruction, Inc. of Minneapolis; he was | 18 | | a speaker to hundreds of area groups on handwriting analysis | 19 | | and a teacher of handwriting analysis since 1971 at area | 20 | | community colleges and adult education facilities; he was | 21 | | President of the Illowa Handwriting Analysis Club since 1970 | 22 | | and a member of the American Association of Handwriting |
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| 1 | | Analysts; he conducted workshops for other professional | 2 | | graphologists and wrote an instruction book on handwriting | 3 | | analysis, which was used in teaching classes; he volunteered | 4 | | for programs on handwriting analysis at various nursing homes | 5 | | and hospitals; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Giles Weigandt was a member of the Moline Veterans | 7 | | of Foreign Wars and the Moline American Legion; he was a life | 8 | | member of Trinity Lutheran, where he had been a choir member | 9 | | for 62 years and served for several terms on church council and | 10 | | on various task forces; he was also a church soloist at many | 11 | | churches in the area; since its founding in 1949, he had been | 12 | | active in the Quad-City Music Guild through 1977, singing in 35 | 13 | | of their productions; he was a member of the Metropolitan Opera | 14 | | Guild since 1955; he was also a funeral soloist for many of the | 15 | | area funeral homes; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Giles Weigandt traveled in every state, plus | 17 | | several foreign countries; he was the family historian and kept | 18 | | many local pictures with family going back to the 1890s, | 19 | | including historical notes and pictures on Moline's 7th Street | 20 | | area; he kept a large library at his home; he was also an | 21 | | artist and painted many landscapes; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Giles Weigandt was preceded in death by his | 23 | | parents and his sister, Corrine Tiedge; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Giles Weigandt is survived by his brothers and | 2 | | sisters, Dale Weigandt, Pat (Bob) Kleinsmith, Janice Allinger, | 3 | | and Randy (Penny) Weigandt; therefore, be it
| 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 5 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 6 | | Giles Ronald Weigandt, and extend our sincere condolences to | 7 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 8 | | further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 | | presented to the family of Giles Weigandt as an expression of | 11 | | our deepest sympathy.
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