Full Text of SR0587 096th General Assembly
SR0587 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
Arthur W. Hustis of Marseilles, who | 4 |
| passed away on September 13, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Arthur Hustis was born on July 23, 1929, in Cold | 6 |
| Spring, New York; his parents were Roger and Helen Gravel | 7 |
| Hustis; he married JoAnn Laatz on September 4, 1954; and
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| WHEREAS, Arthur Hustis served his country with pride and | 9 |
| distinction as a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps during | 10 |
| the Korean Conflict, having served with the occupation forces | 11 |
| in Germany; and
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| WHEREAS, Arthur Hustis retired from the former Nabisco | 13 |
| Company in Marseilles after many years of service as a printing | 14 |
| press operator; and
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| WHEREAS, Arthur Hustis was a member of the First | 16 |
| Congregational-United Church of Christ in Ottawa, where he | 17 |
| served 2 separate terms as moderator; he was a member of the | 18 |
| Marseilles Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5506 and a past master | 19 |
| and 50-year member of Marseilles Masonic Lodge 417, A.F. & | 20 |
| A.M.; he was a member and past patron of the former Ramona | 21 |
| Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Marseilles; he was |
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| also a member of the Bloomington Consistory, the Mohammed | 2 |
| Temple in Peoria, the Starved Rock Civil War Round Table of | 3 |
| Ottawa, and the Mendota Clown Funsters; and
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| WHEREAS, Arthur Hustis was the great-great-grandson of | 5 |
| Union Major General G. Kimble Warren, the hero of the Battle of | 6 |
| Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil | 7 |
| War; and
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| WHEREAS, Arthur Hustis was preceded in death by his | 9 |
| parents; and | 10 |
| WHEREAS, Arthur Hustis is survived by his wife, JoAnn | 11 |
| Hustis; his son, Roger E. Hustis; his daughter, Adele Anne | 12 |
| Hustis; and his brothers, William A.R. (Sherry) Hustis and | 13 |
| Harvey H. (Hilda) Hustis; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 15 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 16 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Arthur W. Hustis; and be | 17 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the family of Arthur Hustis as an expression of | 20 |
| our sympathy.
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