Full Text of SR1897 99th 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 John Richard Steele, who passed away on | 4 | | February 15, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, John Steele was born on April 30, 1926 in | 6 | | Waukegan; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, John Steele was descended from a long line of | 8 | | entrepreneurs that can be traced back to the founding of | 9 | | Hartford, Connecticut and further back to Sussex, England; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, John Steele lived most of his life in Waukegan as | 11 | | a banker in the family business, The First National Bank of | 12 | | Waukegan, which was established in 1852; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, John Steele's passion was scuba diving on sunken | 14 | | shipwrecks in the Great Lakes; he is credited with finding and | 15 | | diving on 40 "virgin" shipwrecks and some of those dives are | 16 | | documented on film he took himself; he also donated countless | 17 | | maritime artifacts to museums and historical societies, | 18 | | including the Smithsonian Institution; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, John Steele was preceded in death by his first | 20 | | wife, Berta Feltes, and his second wife, Dorothy Catlin; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, John Steele is survived by his children, Joan | 2 | | (Robert) VanLieshout, Andrea Soderquist, Joan VanLieshout, | 3 | | John N. Steele, and Roberta Steele; and many grandchildren and | 4 | | great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 6 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 7 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of John Richard Steele; | 8 | | and be it further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 10 | | presented to the family of John Steele as an expression of our | 11 | | sympathy.
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