Bill Text: IL SR0090 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of John Carter Burdon of Washington, Illinois and Charleston, South Carolina.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-03-03 - Resolution Adopted [SR0090 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SR0090-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
John Carter Burdon of Washington, | ||||||
| 4 | Illinois and Charleston, South Carolina, who passed away on | ||||||
| 5 | January 16, 2011; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, John Burdon was born on July 27, 1923, in Low | ||||||
| 7 | Point; his parents were Stephen Malcolm and Beulah Maecrete | ||||||
| 8 | Banta Burdon; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, John Burdon served his country as a physician in | ||||||
| 10 | the United States Naval Reserve during World War II and the | ||||||
| 11 | Korean Conflict; he served from 1942 to 1963, when he retired | ||||||
| 12 | at the rank of lieutenant commander; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, John Burdon attended Knox College from 1940 to | ||||||
| 14 | 1943 and earned his medical degree in anesthesiology from the | ||||||
| 15 | University of Illinois Medical School in 1946; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, John Burdon was the second member in the group of | ||||||
| 17 | nine physicians in the Associated Anesthesiologists Medical | ||||||
| 18 | Group; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, John Burdon enjoyed professional tennis, the | ||||||
| 20 | Green Bay Packers, the American Ballet Theatre, and Broadway | ||||||
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| 1 | Theater; he joined the Greater Charleston Duplicate Bridge Club | ||||||
| 2 | in 1996 and achieved the rank of Silver Life Master; he also | ||||||
| 3 | enjoyed duplicate bridge, tournament bridge, club bridge, | ||||||
| 4 | party bridge, and playing tennis; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, John Burdon was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal | ||||||
| 6 | Cathedral in Peoria; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, John Burdon was preceded in death by his parents | ||||||
| 8 | and his niece, Jean Cameron Burdon; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, John Burdon is survived by his brother, Stephen | ||||||
| 10 | Banta Burdon; his niece, Katherine Ann Burdon; and his best | ||||||
| 11 | friend, Lonnie Eugene Stewart; therefore, be it
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| 12 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 13 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 14 | his family and friends, the passing of John Carter Burdon; and | ||||||
| 15 | be it further
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| 16 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 17 | presented to the family of John Burdon as an expression of our | ||||||
| 18 | sympathy.
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