Bill Text: IL SR0084 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Robert W. Brown of Morton.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-02-20 - Resolution Adopted [SR0084 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SR0084-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
3 | learn of the death of Robert W. Brown of Morton, who passed | ||||||
4 | away on February 6, 2009; and
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5 | WHEREAS, He was born July 9, 1940, in Peoria to Genola | ||||||
6 | Naumann Brown and Edwin W. Brown Jr.; he married Barbara Kay | ||||||
7 | Black on January 3, 1960, in Indianapolis; he graduated from | ||||||
8 | Washington Community High School in 1958 and attended Purdue | ||||||
9 | University, where he was initiated into Phi Gamma Delta; and
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10 | WHEREAS, After graduating from Bradley University in 1963, | ||||||
11 | he worked for IBM and Howard Printing Company before starting | ||||||
12 | to work at Morton Federal Savings and Loan in 1973; he retired | ||||||
13 | from Bank Plus in 2001 as CEO and chairman of the board; he | ||||||
14 | earned an MBA from Bradley in 1989 and had been a member of the | ||||||
15 | Foster College of Business Administration's National Council | ||||||
16 | of Advisors since 1999; and
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17 | WHEREAS, He was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in | ||||||
18 | Washington, where he served as co-chair of the building | ||||||
19 | committee, two terms on the church council, and on the | ||||||
20 | long-range planning and finance committees; he was a member of | ||||||
21 | the Morton Chamber of Commerce, he chaired the Morton Pumpkin | ||||||
22 | Festival in 1976, was a member of chamber board of directors |
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1 | from 1989 to 1994, and received the chamber's Distinguished | ||||||
2 | Service Award in 2000; and
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3 | WHEREAS, He served on the board of the American Red Cross, | ||||||
4 | Central Illinois Chapter, from 1995 to 2005, as board chair | ||||||
5 | from 2001 to 2003, on the State Service Council from 2000 to | ||||||
6 | 2004, and one term on the national American Red Cross | ||||||
7 | nominating committee; he served as a member of the We Care | ||||||
8 | Foundation board, helped form the Morton Youth Baseball | ||||||
9 | Association and the Beta Phi chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at | ||||||
10 | Bradley; he was a member of Washington's 12th Man; he was an | ||||||
11 | honorary member of the Morton Rotary Club, a Paul Harris Fellow | ||||||
12 | and a member of Taylor Lodge 98 AF & AM in Washington; and
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13 | WHEREAS,
He was preceded in death by his father; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Robert Brown is survived by his wife, Barbara; his | ||||||
15 | mother, Genola Naumann Brown Edwards; his children, Robert W. | ||||||
16 | Brown Jr. (Sarah), Martin T. Brown (Julie), David A. Brown | ||||||
17 | (Suzanne), and Katherine B. Bowers (Scott); and his grandsons, | ||||||
18 | Steffan W. Brown, Mitchell R. Brown, Walker T. Brown, Andrew D. | ||||||
19 | Brown, Anthony S. Brown, Hunter T. Brown, Jonathon S. Bowers, | ||||||
20 | and Andrew J. Bowers; therefore, be it
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21 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | ||||||
22 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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1 | his family and friends, the passing of Robert W. Brown; and be | ||||||
2 | it further
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3 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
4 | presented to the family of Robert W. Brown as a symbol of our | ||||||
5 | sincere sympathy.
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