Full Text of SR0143 95th General Assembly
SR0143 95TH 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 Mary M. Bard of Shawneetown, who passed | 4 |
| away on April 12, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Bard was a member of St. Mary's Catholic | 6 |
| Church in Shawneetown, and the Daughters of Isabella; she was | 7 |
| born in Sydney, Australia on November 18, 1923, to John Patrick | 8 |
| McCristal and Emily Muriel Kelly; and
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| WHEREAS, She became acquainted with Milent Russell "Ike" | 10 |
| Bard, an American soldier stationed in Sydney during World War | 11 |
| II, and they were married in Sydney, Australia on November 10, | 12 |
| 1945; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Bard left her family, friends, and her | 14 |
| homeland at the age of 22 and came to East Prairie, Missouri, | 15 |
| to start a family; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Bard was preceded in death by her husband of | 17 |
| 59 years, Milent R. "Ike" Bard; her brother, Frederick Thomas | 18 |
| McCristal; and her sisters, Muriel Agnes Boag, Kathleen | 19 |
| Edwards, and Hilda Marjorie Stratford; and
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| WHEREAS, She is survived by her loving family; her |
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| daughters and three sons-in-law, Denise and Al White, Karen and | 2 |
| James Keasler, Diane Graves, and Cecilia and Mark Wilson; her | 3 |
| sons and two daughters-in-law, Bruce and Linda Bard, and | 4 |
| Richard and Pamela Bard; her grandchildren, LaDawn Febuary Avis | 5 |
| and Scott, Julie and David Graves, Brian White and Nicole, | 6 |
| Kris, Ryan and Brad Kilmer, Abigail and Kallie Keasler, Katie | 7 |
| and Drew Wilson and James and Michael McLachlan; her | 8 |
| great-granddaughters, Adrienne White and Madeline Avis; her | 9 |
| great-grandsons, Jack White and Michael Duke Avis; and her | 10 |
| sisters, Valma Mavis and Dorothy Grace Musgrave; therefore, be | 11 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 13 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 14 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Mary M. Bard; and be it | 15 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to the family of Mary M. Bard as a symbol of our | 18 |
| sympathy.
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