Full Text of SR0102 96th General Assembly
SR0102 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 Peter W. Olroyd II of Carlinville, who | 4 |
| passed away on February 21, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born July 8, 1934, in Hillsboro, the son of | 6 |
| Peter W. Olroyd Sr. and Maymie Chaudoin; he married Joyce R. | 7 |
| (Schmidt) Olroyd on December 29, 1953, in Hillsboro; and
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| WHEREAS, He graduated from Hillsboro High School, with the | 9 |
| class of 1952; he was a Korean War veteran serving as 2nd Class | 10 |
| Petty Officer aboard the U.S.S. Cadmus; he was ordained as a | 11 |
| minister in 1978; he was pastor at Fayette Baptist Church in | 12 |
| rural Greenfield from 1977 to 1993; from 1994 to 2000 he served | 13 |
| churches in Dow, Charity Baptist Church in Carlinville, and | 14 |
| Carlinville Southern Baptist Church as an interim pastor; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Olroyd joined the Carlinville Post Office in | 16 |
| 1962 and served as a mail carrier until 1978, when he was | 17 |
| appointed assistant postmaster, serving in that capacity until | 18 |
| taking early retirement in 1989; he joined the Emmanuel Baptist | 19 |
| Church in Carlinville in 2002, where he served as a deacon, | 20 |
| taught Sunday school and was the director of Sunday school; and | 21 |
| he was selected as Bivocational Pastor of the Year in 1993; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his son-in-law, Brent | 2 |
| Stayton; his five brothers; and his sister; and
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| WHEREAS, Peter Olroyd II is survived by his wife, Joyce R. | 4 |
| Olroyd; his children, Peter W. Olroyd III, Mark R. Olroyd | 5 |
| (Sondra), Lois Stayton, Stephen Olroyd (Peggy), and James | 6 |
| Olroyd (Tina); his fourteen grandchildren; his eleven | 7 |
| great-grandchildren; his three great-great-grandchildren; his | 8 |
| brother, George Hudelson (Norma); his sister, Josephine | 9 |
| Harris; and his several nieces and nephews; 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 Peter Olroyd II; and be | 13 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to the family of Peter Olroyd II as a symbol of our | 16 |
| sincere sympathy.
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