Full Text of SR0394 095th General Assembly
SR0394 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 Roy Fair of Sugar Grove, who passed away | 4 |
| on September 30, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Roy Fair was born July 11, 1935, in Myrtle, | 6 |
| Mississippi, the son of Sybil Fair (nee Aston) and the late Roy | 7 |
| Fair Sr.; and
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| WHEREAS, Roy Fair was in the real estate business, | 9 |
| beginning in 1959; he started his own company in Aurora in | 10 |
| 1963, and achieved a 60% market share in the Aurora market | 11 |
| under the Fair & Company flag; he maintained offices in | 12 |
| Yorkville, Geneva, Montgomery, Naperville, and Aurora during | 13 |
| those years; and
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| WHEREAS, He served on the Aurora Board of Realtors for many | 15 |
| years, becoming its president in 1968 and eventually serving as | 16 |
| president of the Illinois Association of Realtors in 1980; Mr. | 17 |
| Fair continued to serve the association at all three levels and | 18 |
| had finished his 22nd year as a director of the National | 19 |
| Association of Realtors; he was awarded the highest honor of | 20 |
| the association by being named Realtor of the Year by the | 21 |
| Aurora Association in 1973, and Realtor of the Year by the | 22 |
| Illinois State Association in 1982; in 2003, he was awarded the |
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| coveted Hall of Fame Award from the Aurora Tri-County | 2 |
| Association of Realtors for his continuing dedication and | 3 |
| service to the industry; and
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| WHEREAS, As chairman of the National Legislative | 5 |
| Committee, Mr. Fair was instrumental in securing legislation to | 6 |
| allow the FHA interest rate to float with the market; during | 7 |
| his years in the business he built over 400 homes in the Aurora | 8 |
| area, purchased, rehabbed, and financed over 100 low and | 9 |
| moderate income houses, trained hundreds of real estate agents | 10 |
| in the sales end of the business, and developed and managed | 11 |
| numerous real estate investments; he carried the prestigious | 12 |
| Realtor designation of Certified Residential Broker; he served | 13 |
| as chairman of the South Kane County American Cancer Crusade, | 14 |
| chairman of the Downtown Aurora Committee of the Aurora Chamber | 15 |
| of Commerce, director of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce, and on | 16 |
| Governor Thompson's Task Force on Home Ownership; and
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| WHEREAS, Roy Fair is survived by his wife, Sue | 18 |
| Wiskowski-Fair; his sons, Mike (Laurie) Fair, Terry (Cindy) | 19 |
| Fair, and David (Debbie) Fair; his twelve grandchildren, Sandy | 20 |
| (Bob) Cary, Susan (Mark) Alsip, Samantha (George) Pilgrim, | 21 |
| Garett Fair, Derek Fair, Jared Fair, Shana Fair, Richard Fair, | 22 |
| John (Stacy) Fair, Andrea Fair, James Fair, and Selena Hensley; | 23 |
| his twelve great-grandchildren; his mother, Sybil Fair; his | 24 |
| sisters, Doris (Fred) Moore, and Ann Louise (Sonny) Churchill; |
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| and his brother, Billy Fair; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 3 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 4 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Roy Fair; and be it | 5 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 |
| presented to the family of Roy Fair as a symbol of our | 8 |
| sympathy.
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