Full Text of SR0752 95th General Assembly
SR0752 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 Hugh O. Worthen of Alton, who passed away | 4 |
| on June 3, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Hugh O. Worthen was born March 7, 1914, in | 6 |
| Murphysboro to Charles and Edith (Porter) Worthen; he married | 7 |
| the former Dorothy L. Raines on June 15, 1940; she passed away | 8 |
| on June 13, 1997; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a veteran of the National Guard Calvary | 10 |
| Division out of New Mexico; he taught fourth grade at Lincoln | 11 |
| School in Wood River, as well as serving as the school | 12 |
| principal; he later went to work for Amoco as a fuel blender, | 13 |
| retiring in 1978 after 36 years; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Worthen was a city councilman in Wood River | 15 |
| from 1952 to 1962 and served on the Wood River School Board | 16 |
| from 1946 to 1962; he was an officer at the Central States | 17 |
| Petroleum Union and a member of the First United Methodist | 18 |
| Church, Standard Oil Torch Club, and Music Makers Group; and
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| WHEREAS, In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death | 20 |
| by his parents and three brothers, Elmer, Charles and Clifford | 21 |
| Worthen; and
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| WHEREAS, Hugh Worthen is survived by his two daughters and | 2 |
| one son-in-law, Marcia and Dan Harmon and Diana Worthen; his | 3 |
| two sons and daughters-in-law, Richard and Sherrill Worthen and | 4 |
| Gary and Leslie Worthen; his six grandchildren; his five | 5 |
| great-grandsons; and his three sisters and two | 6 |
| brothers-in-law, Mary and Hubert Walsh, Margaret Howard, and | 7 |
| Agnes and Gene Dale; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 9 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 10 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Hugh O. Worthen; and be | 11 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 |
| presented to the family of Hugh O. Worthen as a symbol of our | 14 |
| sincere sympathy.
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