Full Text of SR0444 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Donald Leo Hastings, Jr. of Edwardsville, | 4 | | who passed away on June 1, 2013; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Donald Hastings, Jr. was born on May 30, 1952, in | 6 | | Alton; his parents were Donald and Harriet (Zoleman) Hastings; | 7 | | and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Donald Hastings, Jr. attended Southern Illinois | 9 | | University in Edwardsville and was the first student trustee in | 10 | | Illinois to serve both campuses at Edwardsville and Carbondale; | 11 | | and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Donald Hastings, Jr. was a long-standing member of | 13 | | the Lewis and Clark Historical Society; as a member, he helped | 14 | | society leadership to procure federal and State funding to | 15 | | build the Lewis and Clark State Historical Site in Hartford, | 16 | | served on the design team for the site and its exhibits, and | 17 | | successfully secured grant money to erect a replica of Camp | 18 | | River Dubois; he served as President of the Society during the | 19 | | Bicentennial, earning Hartford the designation of Site #1 on | 20 | | the Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Donald Hastings, Jr. served as the Democratic |
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| 1 | | Committeeman for Precinct #4, a position held by his | 2 | | grandmother for 52 years; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Donald Hastings, Jr. is survived by his parents; | 4 | | his children, Alexis (Rennie) Mead and Cameron (Jennifer) | 5 | | Hastings; his significant other, Kathryn Hymel, and her | 6 | | children, Rick Solomon and Christian (Jamie) Luetkemeyer; his | 7 | | siblings, Douglas (Kathleen) Hastings, Pamela (Lawrence) | 8 | | Perlmutter, Celeste (Gregg) Korte, Kathleen (Kevin) Walker, | 9 | | Elizabeth (Theodore) Petersen, Kimberly (Brett) Wolff, and | 10 | | Jennifer Moehlmann; his grandchildren, Rowan, Finnian, and | 11 | | Auden Mead and Avan and Cade Luetkemeyer; and his many nieces | 12 | | and nephews; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | 14 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 15 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Donald Leo Hastings, | 16 | | Jr.; and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Donald Hastings, Jr. as an | 19 | | expression of our sympathy.
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