Full Text of HR0633 093rd General Assembly
HR0633 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois
learned with deep regret of the death of | 4 |
| their colleague, State Representative
David
Wirsing of | 5 |
| Sycamore, on Sunday, November 16, 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, David Arnold Wirsing was born on August 5, 1937 to | 7 |
| Wayne and Gladys
(Hegberg) Wirsing; he was raised on the family | 8 |
| farm near Sycamore and graduated
from Sycamore High School; and
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| WHEREAS, Representative Wirsing served in the U.S. Army | 10 |
| both on active duty
and in the reserves, from
1957 to 1964; he | 11 |
| married Nancy Hardesty on March 5, 1960;
in 1963, he took over | 12 |
| ownership and operation of the Wirsing Pork Finishing
Farm; and
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| WHEREAS, Representative Wirsing was very active in | 14 |
| promoting pork production
and served as Vice-President of the | 15 |
| Illinois Pork Producers Association in 1982
and President in | 16 |
| 1984; in 1988, he became Chairman of the Illinois Pork PAC, a
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| post he held until 1992; he was elected to the Sycamore School | 18 |
| Board in 1986;
and
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| WHEREAS, Representative Wirsing was
in his sixth term | 20 |
| representing the 70th Legislative District;
he was active in | 21 |
| working on behalf of Northern
Illinois University and the | 22 |
| people of DeKalb and Sycamore; he was the minority
spokesman | 23 |
| for the Higher Education Committee and a member of the House
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| Elementary and Secondary Appropriations Committee; he also | 25 |
| served on the House
Executive and Labor Committees; and
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| WHEREAS, When entering the House Floor from the Republican | 27 |
| side,
Representative Wirsing was the first face in view, and he | 28 |
| always had a smile;
staff and other members frequently stopped | 29 |
| by his desk on the Floor to visit
and partake of his | 30 |
| ever-present basket of orange slices; he was known as
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| everybody's "grandpa", yet he had a youthful exuberance and a | 2 |
| wry sense of
humor; he distinguished himself as a fair-minded, | 3 |
| effective, and respected
legislator; and
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| WHEREAS, Representative Wirsing was a member of | 5 |
| Congressman Dennis Hastert's
Agricultural Advisory Committee, | 6 |
| the organizer and Chairman of the Sycamore
Youth Council on | 7 |
| Street Gang Issues, a member of the Northern FS Board of
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| Directors, a past 4-H leader, a member of the DeKalb County | 9 |
| Farm Bureau, a
member of the University of Illinois China Hog | 10 |
| Research Committee, a member of
the Western Illinois University | 11 |
| Swine Research Committee, a member of the
Legislative | 12 |
| Information Advisory Committee for the Illinois Association of
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| School Boards, the Secretary of the Coon Creek Drainage | 14 |
| District Board, and the
past President of the DeKalb | 15 |
| Toastmasters Club; he was a member of Sycamore
United Methodist | 16 |
| Church, a founding member of the Sycamore Education
Foundation, | 17 |
| a member of Charter Grove Grange, and a former board member of | 18 |
| the
Kane County Farm Bureau; and
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| WHEREAS, Representative Wirsing was the recipient of the | 20 |
| Friend of
Agriculture award given by the Illinois Agriculture | 21 |
| Association and the
Guardian of Small Business award given by | 22 |
| the Illinois Federation of
Independent Businessmen; he | 23 |
| received recognition from the Illinois Bankers
Association in | 24 |
| 2002, and was given the Friend of the Child award from the
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| Children's Learning Center in DeKalb in 2000 and 2001; he | 26 |
| received the
Distinguished Service Award from the Northern | 27 |
| Illinois University Alumni
Association in 2001, and in 2000, he | 28 |
| was the recipient of the Dedicated Service
Award from Safe | 29 |
| Passage, a domestic violence shelter for women and children;
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Representative Wirsing was honored by the City of | 32 |
| Sycamore in
appreciation of his continuing generous support in | 33 |
| 2001, by 4-H
for his support of the 4-H Blue Ribbon Sale, and |
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| in 2003 by Waubonsee Community
College as a distinguished | 2 |
| contributor; he received the Day Care Action Council
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| Illinois' Action for Illinois Children award in 2001; he was | 4 |
| recognized by
the Ogle County Senior Services, Inc. in June of | 5 |
| 1999 for his outstanding
service and dedication to older | 6 |
| Americans and was given a Main Street DeKalb
Certificate of | 7 |
| Appreciation in 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Representative Wirsing has been | 9 |
| most deeply felt by
those who supported him throughout both his | 10 |
| public and private career,
especially his wife, Nancy; his | 11 |
| sons, Mark (wife Elizabeth) and Steven; his
daughters, Angela | 12 |
| Mecklenburg (husband Tom) and Susan Rankin (husband Scot);
his | 13 |
| grandchildren, Clint, Jasmine, Karly, and Melina Mecklenburg, | 14 |
| Emma and
Andrew Rankin, Scott, Jeff, and Rachel Wirsing, and | 15 |
| Wesley and Justin Parker;
his mother, Gladys Wirsing; his | 16 |
| brother Ron (wife Marcia); his sisters, Carol
Larson (husband | 17 |
| Ray) and Kay Schrader (husband Barry); his sister-in-law,
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| Lucille Wirsing; and his several nieces and nephews; therefore, | 19 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 21 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 22 |
| mourn the passing of State Representative David Wirsing, a | 23 |
| progressive farm leader who served the citizens of the 70th | 24 |
| Legislative District with honor and distinction; and be it | 25 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 27 |
| presented to the family
of Representative David Wirsing as an | 28 |
| expression of our deepest
condolences during their time of | 29 |
| bereavement.
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