Full Text of SR0188 096th General Assembly
SR0188 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 Thomas F. Bolger of McHenry, who passed | 4 |
| away on March 16, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born March 11, 1924, the fifth of 10 | 6 |
| children, to Thomas A. and Grace Doherty Bolger on an Irish | 7 |
| Prairie farm just south of McHenry; after graduating high | 8 |
| school at the age of 17, he took a job at McHenry State Bank | 9 |
| "until something better came along"; and
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| WHEREAS, He joined the United States Army in January of | 11 |
| 1943, arriving in Liverpool, England, on his 20th birthday; his | 12 |
| unit landed in Normandy shortly after the D-Day invasion and | 13 |
| was part of the Red Ball Express supporting General Patton's | 14 |
| Third Army as it raced east across France; at the conclusion of | 15 |
| the war, his unit guarded German officers being tried for war | 16 |
| crimes in Luxembourg; and
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| WHEREAS, After his discharge from the Army with the rank of | 18 |
| staff sergeant, he returned to his war-shortened banking career | 19 |
| and met his future wife, Kathryn, working in the bookkeeping | 20 |
| department of the bank; they married in 1948; he was named | 21 |
| president of McHenry State Bank in 1974, a position he held | 22 |
| until retirement; in 1980, he was elected the national |
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| president of the Independent Bankers Association of America | 2 |
| representing 7,800 banks across 48 states; during his tenure, | 3 |
| he testified before committees of both houses of Congress and | 4 |
| the Illinois Legislature and was invited to participate in | 5 |
| President Carter's White House economic summit; he retired from | 6 |
| McHenry State Bank in 1993 after a 52-year career; and
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| WHEREAS, As a lifelong resident, he was a passionate | 8 |
| supporter of the McHenry community and took on leadership roles | 9 |
| in many charitable and civic organizations, including serving | 10 |
| as treasurer of the city of McHenry for 25 years, charter | 11 |
| treasurer of McHenry County College, and with his wife, | 12 |
| Kathryn, served as national co-chairman of the Marquette | 13 |
| University Parents Association; he also was a member of St. | 14 |
| Mary's Catholic Church, the American Legion, the VFW, the | 15 |
| McHenry Rotary Club, the McHenry Country Club, the Marian | 16 |
| Central Parents Club and the Knights of Columbus; and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents; and his | 18 |
| sisters, Vivian Eastman and Eleanor Sullivan; and
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Bolger is survived by his wife of 60 years, | 20 |
| Kathryn Nye Bolger; his sons, Tom (Lisa) and Dave; his | 21 |
| daughters, Cindy (Dan) Schmidt, Mary Ellen (Scott) Stanek, Ann | 22 |
| Bolger Cates, and Susan (Jeff) Hamar; his grandsons, Tom | 23 |
| (Karen), Michael (Allison), Christopher (Annie), Danny and |
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| Timothy Bolger, Joseph (Laura) Schmidt, Peter and Patrick | 2 |
| Stanek, and Reynold and Hudson Hamar; his granddaughters, Sarah | 3 |
| Schmidt and Kathryn Stanek; and his great-grandson, Thomas | 4 |
| Henry Bolger, the seventh generation Thomas Bolger; he also is | 5 |
| survived by his brothers, Walter (Madeline) and William (Carol) | 6 |
| Bolger; his sisters, Mabel (Richard) Weber, Grace Stilling, | 7 |
| Margaret (Richard) Carey, Ann Miller, and Rita (Ray) Gaylord; | 8 |
| his brothers-in-law, Richard Eastman and Edwin Sullivan; his | 9 |
| sisters-in-law, Shirley Nye and Mary Bauer; and his many nieces | 10 |
| and nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 12 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 13 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Thomas Bolger; and be it | 14 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to the family of Thomas Bolger as a symbol of our | 17 |
| sincere sympathy.
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