Full Text of HR0403 94th General Assembly
HR0403 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives learned with sadness of the death of Anthony W. | 4 |
| "Tony" Dyhrkopp of Gold Hill Ranch, Shawneetown, on April 10, | 5 |
| 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Dyhrkopp was born September 17, 1947, in | 7 |
| Evansville, Indiana, the son of Einar and Frances (Sanders) | 8 |
| Dyhrkopp of Shawneetown; and
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| WHEREAS, He graduated from Shawneetown High School in 1965 | 10 |
| and received his Juris Doctorate degree from North Carolina in | 11 |
| 1974; he also studied at Chicago Kent College of Law, Parson | 12 |
| College, and enrolled in a European study program with the | 13 |
| International College of Copenhagen, Denmark, spending | 14 |
| considerable time in Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, | 15 |
| Hungary, East and West Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and | 16 |
| Spain; and
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| WHEREAS, He served as an Assistant Illinois Attorney | 18 |
| General, specializing in revenue litigation and consumer | 19 |
| fraud, between two terms as Gallatin County State's Attorney; | 20 |
| he also served as a Hearing Officer for Secretary of State | 21 |
| Jessie White; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a member of First Baptist Church in | 23 |
| Shawneetown; he was vice-president of Tecumseh International, | 24 |
| an alumni of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, a member of the | 25 |
| Equality Masonic Lodge 2, and a lifelong Democrat; and
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| WHEREAS, He will be remembered as an affable man with a | 27 |
| good sense of humor; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his grandmother, | 29 |
| Myrtle Schwander and his great-grandfather, Guy R. Lambert; his |
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| grandmother Vevith (Denton) Dyhrkopp; his grandfather, Victor | 2 |
| Dyhrkopp; his great-grandmother, Sarah H. Denton; and his | 3 |
| great-uncle, Col. Samuel A. Denton, and his wife, Ethel; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Anthony W. "Tony" Dyhrkopp is felt | 5 |
| by all who knew and loved him, especially his wife of 28 years, | 6 |
| Ellen (Lambert) Dyhrkopp; his sons, Douglas Einar Dyhrkopp and | 7 |
| Aaron Joseph Dyhrkopp; his daughter, Kara Ruth Dyhrkopp; his | 8 |
| parents, Einar and Frances Dyhrkopp; and numerous other | 9 |
| relatives; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 11 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 |
| we mourn the passing of Anthony W. "Tony" Dyhrkopp and extend | 13 |
| our sincere and heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, | 14 |
| and community; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 17 |
| sympathy.
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