Full Text of SR0259 95th General Assembly
SR0259 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 James Richard Heil of Alton, who passed | 4 |
| away on June 15, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, James Heil was born on February 18, 1935, in | 6 |
| Alton, the son of the late Harry J.R. and Luella Smith Heil; | 7 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Heil served in the United States Army from | 9 |
| September of 1957 to March of 1958, and in the Reserves from | 10 |
| March of 1958 to December of 1963; he received a Bachelor of | 11 |
| Arts degree in 1957 and his Juris Doctor in 1961 from the | 12 |
| University of Illinois; he was licensed as an attorney by the | 13 |
| State of Illinois on October 26, 1961, and practiced law in the | 14 |
| Alton and Godfrey communities; and
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| WHEREAS, During his career he served as a Madison County | 16 |
| State's Attorney and as an Assistant Attorney General for the | 17 |
| State of Illinois; he was
active in Republican politics, and | 18 |
| served on the Madison County Board from 1972 to 1982; he held a | 19 |
| Illinois Broker's License, taught real estate law at Lewis and | 20 |
| Clark Community College, and received his certification of | 21 |
| master practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming in July of | 22 |
| 1992; and
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| WHEREAS, James Heil was certified as a hypnotherapist by | 2 |
| the National Guild of Hypnotists in May of 1994; he was a | 3 |
| former member of the National Speakers Association; he was a | 4 |
| founding officer of the St. Louis Chapter of the National | 5 |
| Speakers Association; he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon | 6 |
| social fraternity, a past member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers | 7 |
| Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the | 8 |
| Illinois State Bar Association, and the American Bar | 9 |
| Association; and he was a longtime member of the Alton Little | 10 |
| Theater; and
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| WHEREAS, James Richard Heil is survived by his life | 12 |
| partner, Linda Leckrone; his daughter, Laura Shansey and her | 13 |
| husband, Patrick; his son, Jeff Heil and his wife, Jean; his | 14 |
| grandchildren, Sydney and Evan Shansey, and James and Jayson | 15 |
| Heil; his mother-in-law, Verna Wilson; his sister, Donna Amick | 16 |
| and her husband, Dan; his cousin, Mimi (Wade) Moore and her | 17 |
| husband, Randy and their children, Brady, Mark, and Tricia | 18 |
| Moore; his nephew, Randy Heil and his wife, Patty, and his | 19 |
| children, Jamie, Josh, and Lori Heil; his dear friend, Brian | 20 |
| Gibbons; his brother, Gilbert Heil; his large extended family; | 21 |
| and his many friends and special pets, Aloyuisus, Boots, Baby | 22 |
| Kitty, Wee One, Eight Ball, and Bart; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 2 |
| his family and friends, the passing of James Richard Heil; and | 3 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 |
| presented to the family of James Richard Heil as a symbol of | 6 |
| our sympathy.
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