Full Text of SR0113 97th 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
Reverend George Orval Dougherty, who | 4 | | passed away on February 22, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, George Dougherty was born on June 27, 1927, in | 6 | | Harrisburg; his parents were Orval and Hallie (Malone) | 7 | | Dougherty; he married Rosella Nell Ledbetter on December 26, | 8 | | 1944; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, George Dougherty attended high school in | 10 | | Harrisburg, where he became a state champion runner in track; | 11 | | he loved running and continued to run throughout his life, even | 12 | | into his 70s, and won numerous local and state awards; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, George Dougherty served in the United States Army | 14 | | during World War II until he was honorably discharged; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, In his early 20s, George Dougherty answered the | 16 | | call of God on his life to be a minister of the Word and began | 17 | | pastoring in General Baptist churches in Raleigh and Stonefort; | 18 | | in 1960, he was called to pastor the First General Baptist | 19 | | Church in East Alton, where he served for seven years; in 1967, | 20 | | he and his family moved to Kingston, Jamaica, to serve as | 21 | | missionaries for seven years; upon returning to the United |
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| 1 | | States, he founded the Alpha Chapel, which he pastored for 25 | 2 | | years until his retirement in 1997; during that time, he | 3 | | established the Alpha Christian Academy, which offers | 4 | | kindergarten through grade 12 schooling to the children of the | 5 | | church; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, George Dougherty was a member of the Bethalto | 7 | | Church of God; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, George Dougherty was preceded in death by his | 9 | | parents and his sister, Evelyn Dallas; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, George Dougherty is survived by his sisters, Jean | 11 | | Richard and Barbara Dougherty; his wife, Rosella; his daughters | 12 | | and their spouses, Lee Ann and Gary Tedrick, Patty and Dennis | 13 | | Adams, and Nancy and Mark Leady; his grandchildren, Jennifer | 14 | | Tedrick Schulz, Mindy Adams Schuette, Amber Adams Greenwell, | 15 | | Christal Adams Allemand, Kendra Adams Warren, Eric Fairfax, | 16 | | Jami Fairfax Anderson, and Mark Leady Jr.; his | 17 | | great-grandchildren, Truman and Ellie Schulz, Isabella and Eli | 18 | | Schuette, Emma, Grace, and Mia Greenwell, Noelle and Jada | 19 | | Allemand, Carson Warren, Zarion Felder, Baya Fairfax, Landon | 20 | | and Dylan Bollinger, Tobin and Aidyn Faulkner, and Palin Leady; | 21 | | therefore, be it
| 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL |
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| 1 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 2 | | his family and friends, the passing of Reverend George Orval | 3 | | Dougherty; and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to the family of George Dougherty as an expression of | 6 | | our sympathy.
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