Full Text of SR0300 96th General Assembly
SR0300 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 Ralph Eugene Butler of Alton, who passed | 4 |
| away on May 9, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on September 8, 1927, in Alton, to | 6 |
| William and Ella (Barton) Butler; he married Lorene Butler on | 7 |
| October 14, 1950, in Alton; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a United States Army prisoner of war during | 9 |
| the Korean Conflict; and
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| WHEREAS, He worked as a warehouseman at the Granite City | 11 |
| Army Depot for twenty years, retiring in 1976; he was a member | 12 |
| of 1308 Ex P.O.W. Club in Okawville and an Ex P.O.W. lifetime | 13 |
| member; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents; his | 15 |
| sister, Lillian Little; his brother, Tom Butler; his grandson, | 16 |
| Charles Knight; his granddaughter, Shawna Shaw; and his | 17 |
| sons-in-law, Charles M. Knight and Clarence W. Shaw; and
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| WHEREAS, Ralph Butler is survived by his wife, Lorene; his | 19 |
| daughters and son-in-law, Deborah and Robert Ruckman and Helen | 20 |
| Shaw; his sons and daughter-in-law, Michael Eugene and |
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| Elizabeth Butler and William Cecil and Anne Butler; his | 2 |
| grandchildren, Tiffany Moore, Keri Knight, Chad Knight, Cory | 3 |
| Knight, and Joshua Shaw; his ten great-grandchildren; and his | 4 |
| sister and brother-in-law, Helen and Carl McKenzie; therefore, | 5 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 7 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 8 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Ralph Butler; and be it | 9 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 |
| presented to the family of Ralph Butler as a symbol of our | 12 |
| sincere sympathy.
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