Full Text of SR0363 94th General Assembly
SR0363 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of John S. Baker of Marion on | 4 |
| Monday, July 4, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on April 20, 1914, to George and Lucy | 6 |
| Jane (Blades) Baker in Marion; he married Mary Virginia Collins | 7 |
| on October 9, 1933, in Murphysboro, and together they shared | 8 |
| almost 69 years of marriage until her death on June 26, 2002; | 9 |
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Baker retired from CIPS as a truck driver and | 11 |
| digger operator; he was a member of Warder Street Baptist | 12 |
| Church in Marion and IBEW Local 702; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of John S. Baker has been deeply felt | 14 |
| by many, especially his sons, John Thomas Baker, Charles Dale | 15 |
| Baker, Sr. and wife, Phyllis Ann, Frankie Dean Baker and wife, | 16 |
| June, and Harold Dee Baker and wife, Terry; his 17 | 17 |
| grandchildren; his 32 great-grandchildren; his 6 | 18 |
| great-great-grandchildren; his sister, Betty Jane Dodd; and | 19 |
| his many nieces and nephews; he was preceded in death by his | 20 |
| parents; his wife, Mary; his daughter, Marilyn Jane Kucheska; | 21 |
| his granddaughter, Karen Lynn Baker; his daughter-in-law, | 22 |
| Doris Baker; his brothers, Jimmy Baker, Charles "Bake" Baker, | 23 |
| and George Baker; and his sisters, Rachel McMahn, Hattie Ewing, | 24 |
| and Dorothy Sauri; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 26 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 27 |
| John S. Baker, and we extend our sincere condolences to his | 28 |
| family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 29 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 2 |
| sympathy.
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