Full Text of SR0117 96th General Assembly
SR0117 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 Ronald H. McBride of Glen Carbon, who | 4 |
| passed away on February 23, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born January 28, 1948, in Chester, | 6 |
| Pennsylvania; he married Patricia Hoffmann on June 3, 1967, in | 7 |
| Mineral Wells, Texas; he was an officer in the United States | 8 |
| Army, serving two tours of duty in the Vietnam War as a | 9 |
| helicopter pilot, then continued his military career for 26 | 10 |
| years; during that time he was stationed at various bases in | 11 |
| Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and in Germany, where he was an ROTC | 12 |
| instructor and worked as a comptroller before retiring at the | 13 |
| rank of Lt. Colonel; and
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| WHEREAS, After retirement, he started his own real estate | 15 |
| business and was the founder and general manager of the Cherry | 16 |
| Hills Apartment Complex in Edwardsville; he had a passion for | 17 |
| flying and owned his own aircraft for many years, earning | 18 |
| multiple pilot ratings for various types of aircraft including | 19 |
| Lear Jet, Seaplane, helicopters, multi-engine aircraft, and | 20 |
| hang gliders; and he once flew a Cessna single-engine aircraft | 21 |
| across the Atlantic Ocean from Germany to the United States; he | 22 |
| was president of a flying club while living in Germany, worked | 23 |
| as a flight and ground school instructor, and worked for the |
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| Federal Aviation Administration as a flight examiner; and
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| WHEREAS, He earned his master's degree in business from | 3 |
| Kansas State University, was a member of the Metro East | 4 |
| Landlords Association, St. Boniface Catholic Church in | 5 |
| Edwardsville, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, was a | 6 |
| volunteer usher at the Fox Theater in St. Louis, and a lifetime | 7 |
| member of the Eagle Scouts of America Association, having | 8 |
| earned the rank of Eagle Scout when a teenager; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, He enjoyed snow skiing, traveling, water sports, | 10 |
| collecting model trains, theater, animals, especially his two | 11 |
| cats, Sparky and Daisy, and bowling, where he met his wife; he | 12 |
| loved spending time with his family; to him nothing was more | 13 |
| important in life than his family; his motto was, "Family | 14 |
| first, duty second"; he was a very giving individual always | 15 |
| looking for ways to help others; people always looked to him | 16 |
| for mentoring and he never turned down the opportunity to help | 17 |
| another person; he modeled his life after the philosophies, "Do | 18 |
| good deeds" and "Good things happen to good people"; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents, Francis | 20 |
| and Vera, nee Hendley, McBride; his stepmother, Charlotte | 21 |
| McBride; and his brother-in-law, Brice Wickham; and
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| WHEREAS, He is survived by his beloved wife of 42 years, |
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| Patricia, nee Hoffmann, McBride; his three daughters, | 2 |
| Kimberley and Robert Prater, Laura and Martin Deckert, and Beth | 3 |
| McBride; his brothers Francis "Rocky" McBride and Tim and | 4 |
| Michelle McGrath; his sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Lois | 5 |
| and Lew Glasgow, Liz and Louie Rohlfing, and Bob and Candace | 6 |
| Hoffmann; his sisters-in-law, Nancy Wickham, Ruth Yager, and | 7 |
| Donna Klopfer; and his grandchildren, Allison, Rebecca, Kyle, | 8 |
| Cameron Prater, Patrick, Elena, and Philip Deckert; therefore, | 9 |
| 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 Ronald McBride; and be | 13 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to the family of Ronald McBride as a symbol of our | 16 |
| sincere sympathy.
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