Full Text of SR0688 96th General Assembly
SR0688 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate were saddened | 3 |
| to learn of the death of Richard S. "Dick" Clarke, who passed | 4 |
| away on January 16, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August | 6 |
| 23, 1034, the first born of Jesse Edward Clarke and Sarah | 7 |
| Elizabeth Pilkerton and was the eldest of eight children; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick married his wife, Connie, in 1956, and had | 9 |
| three children; Stuart, Stephen, and Susan; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick trained to be a teacher at Illinois State | 11 |
| Normal, and subsequently worked as a science educator, | 12 |
| industrial engineer, manufacturing executive, salesman, | 13 |
| consultant, and entrepreneur; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick also wrote for a science encyclopedia, was a | 15 |
| science fair director, a violinist, a gymnast in a traveling | 16 |
| circus, and a poet; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick was a very religious and spiritual man, as | 18 |
| well as a devout Catholic for the last sixty-three years, | 19 |
| teaching CCD at St. Margaret Mary for many years; and
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| WHEREAS, Dick was a devoted father to each of his children, | 2 |
| and was deeply saddened by the loss of his daughter, Susan, at | 3 |
| the age of sixteen; and
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| WHEREAS, Richard S. "Dick" Clarke is survived by his wife | 5 |
| of fifty-four years, Connie, nee Koga; his devoted children, | 6 |
| Stewart (Mary Margaret) and Stephen J. (Renee); and his | 7 |
| grandchildren, Dustin, Steven Ray, Nikita, and Cheyanne Rose; | 8 |
| he was the fond brother of David (Joy), Rose Harbour, Bonnie | 9 |
| (late Steven) Kingsbury, Debbie (Gerry) del Junco, the late | 10 |
| Betty Jean (late John) Schultz, Ginny (Jim) Betts, and Phillip | 11 |
| Clarke; and the brother-in-law of Maurice (Mary) Koga; | 12 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 14 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 15 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Richard S. "Dick" | 16 |
| Clarke; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to the family of Richard S. "Dick" Clarke as a symbol | 19 |
| of our sincere sympathy.
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