Full Text of HR0979 094th General Assembly
HR0979 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Donald F. Krahn of Mendota | 4 |
| on Friday, February 3, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Krahn was born on September 26,1932 in Aurora | 6 |
| to Emil and Laura (Hauser) Krahn; he was a graduate of Warsaw, | 7 |
| Missouri High School; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Krahn served with the 44th Infantry Division | 9 |
| National Guard during the Korean conflict, and he was a cook in | 10 |
| Germany with the 407th Engineering Battalion; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Krahn was employed as a Tool Designer at | 12 |
| Caterpillar's Oswego Township plant; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1958, Mr. Krahn married Ann Combs; in 1964, the | 14 |
| couple purchased the Oswego Ledger, a weekly newspaper, where | 15 |
| he served as publisher and advertising manager for the paper; | 16 |
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| WHEREAS, The Krahns' 12-year tenure as owners of the Oswego | 18 |
| Ledger was a period of growth and innovation for the newspaper; | 19 |
| they established an office, changed the paper's format and | 20 |
| circulation type, and began assigning reporters to provide | 21 |
| regular news coverage of local governmental meetings, which put | 22 |
| the newspaper in direct competition with daily newspapers for | 23 |
| local news coverage; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1973, the newspaper's office was destroyed by a | 25 |
| fire; even though the fire struck on a Monday, the Krahns and | 26 |
| their staff still managed to publish the next edition of the | 27 |
| paper as scheduled on the following Thursday; they later built | 28 |
| a multi-tenant office building that housed the Ledger, a | 29 |
| printing service, The Silent Secretary, and an office supply |
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| store, The Paper Crate, which were also owned by the Krahns; | 2 |
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| WHEREAS, Traveling, woodworking, and flying were among Mr. | 4 |
| Krahn's favorite pastimes; he built one plane and rebuilt a | 5 |
| second after earning his pilot's license in 1972; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents and his | 7 |
| brother, Paul; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, The passing of Donald F. Krahn has been deeply | 9 |
| felt by many, especially his wife; his sons, David (Peggy) and | 10 |
| Jeffrey (Janet); his daughter, Susan (Ron) Austin; his | 11 |
| granddaughters, Lisa (John) Eldredge, Heather (Andy) Pipitone, | 12 |
| Amy Krahn, and Brittany and Tiffany Austin; his | 13 |
| great-grandchildren, Mandi, Katie and Emma Eldredge, and | 14 |
| James, Vincent, Gianna, and Mia Pipitone; his sisters, Esther | 15 |
| (Kyle) Hammer, Lois (Jim) Rogers, Ruth Hoffman, and Mildred | 16 |
| Burkhart; and his eighteen nieces and nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 |
| we mourn the passing of Donald F. Krahn, and we extend our | 20 |
| sincerest condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew | 21 |
| and loved him; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 23 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 24 |
| sympathy for their loss.
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