Full Text of SR0596 95th General Assembly
SR0596 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 George Robert Archdale of Waukegan, who | 4 |
| passed away on March 6, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born March 27, 1917 in Waukegan and | 6 |
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a lifelong resident; he was a member of St. Dismas | 7 |
| Church in Waukegan; he attended St. Joseph's School before | 8 |
| joining the United States Navy and trained at Great Lakes in | 9 |
| 1941; during World War II he served on the USS Manila Bay until | 10 |
| his Honorable Discharge in 1945; and
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| WHEREAS, He returned to Waukegan to become a business | 12 |
| partner with his brother Ted at Ted's Tavern; on September 21, | 13 |
| 1946 he married Gloria
Palmer; in 1955 he opened Archdale's | 14 |
| Restaurant, a Waukegan landmark, which he owned and operated | 15 |
| for over 30 years; after selling Archdale's in 1979 he went to | 16 |
| Tucson, Arizona where he received his GED, returned to Lake | 17 |
| County, and received his Associates Degree in real estate sales | 18 |
| from the College of Lake County; after receiving his license he | 19 |
| went to work at Kucera Realty in Waukegan; he also worked as a | 20 |
| bartender at Bertrand's Bowling Lanes in Waukegan; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a community leader who belonged to Knights | 22 |
| of Columbus Waukegan Council 731, where he was a 3rd Degree; he |
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| was a lifetime member of the Waukegan Exchange Club; he was | 2 |
| past president of the Lake County Tavern Owner's Association | 3 |
| for 4 years; and he was a member of the draft board, American | 4 |
| Legion Post 281 for over 60 years; he was active in the | 5 |
| American Alzheimer's Association and spent time with other | 6 |
| Alzheimer's residents; and
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| WHEREAS, George Archdale was preceded in death by his wife, | 8 |
| Gloria; his parents, Walter and Anna (nee Bomkamp) Archdale; | 9 |
| his brothers, Theodore and Walter Archdale; and his sister, | 10 |
| Mary Archdale; and
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| WHEREAS, George Archdale is survived by his son, Robert | 12 |
| (Sandra) Archdale; his sister, Virginia Gould; his niece and | 13 |
| nephews, Carol Butkus, Raymond Butkus, and Phillip (Judy) | 14 |
| Archdale; his great-nieces and nephew, Tammy, Kathy, and Ted; | 15 |
| his special cousin, Robert Nimsgern; his other loving | 16 |
| relatives, Lucille Walters, Donna Hairell, Jane Mason, Kent | 17 |
| Smith, and Nancy Stehno; and his dear cat, Gizmo; therefore, be | 18 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 20 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 21 |
| his family and friends, the passing of George Robert Archdale; | 22 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of George Robert Archdale as a symbol | 3 |
| of our sincere sympathy.
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