Full Text of HR0734 93rd General Assembly
HR0734 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois learned with regret of the death of Maurice | 4 |
| "Moe" Higgins, of Fairfax, Virginia, formerly of Chicago, on | 5 |
| Thursday, February 27, 2004; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Higgins was born May 3, 1917, in Chicago, one | 7 |
| of five children of Irish immigrants Michael and Mary Higgins; | 8 |
| he graduated from St. Leo High School and the old St. Viator | 9 |
| College in Bourbonnais and joined the police force in 1938; at | 10 |
| the same time, he attended Chicago Kent College of Law, earning | 11 |
| his law degree in early 1942; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Higgins married Helen Egan in 1939; they | 13 |
| married a few weeks after Pearl Harbor, and in April 1942, he | 14 |
| joined the U.S. Navy; he served as a naval intelligence | 15 |
| officer, then commanded a landing craft in the South Pacific, | 16 |
| serving in such battles as Guadalcanal, Leyte, and Tarawa, and | 17 |
| becoming a lieutenant; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, In 1946, Mr. Higgins returned to the police force; | 19 |
| he was promoted to sergeant in 1952, lieutenant in 1955, and in | 20 |
| 1956 graduated from the FBI National Police Academy in | 21 |
| Washington, D.C.; when the detective bureau was reorganized in | 22 |
| 1959, he was placed in charge of the robbery, cartage, arson, | 23 |
| and bomb detail, becoming a captain in 1960; and | 24 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Higgins served as chief investigator for the | 25 |
| Cook County state's attorney's office from 1966 to 1969; after | 26 |
| his stint in the state's attorney's office, he was a watch | 27 |
| commander in the South Chicago and Gresham districts on the | 28 |
| South Side and in 1975 became commander of the Morgan Park | 29 |
| District until his 1977 retirement; and | 30 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Higgins always practiced a little law on the |
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| side; when he retired, with the children gone, he had room to | 2 |
| set up an office at home; he often worked for free to help the | 3 |
| widows of his old comrades; he and his wife began buying and | 4 |
| restoring antiques and traveling to Europe; while researching | 5 |
| his family history in County Kerry, he decided to learn the | 6 |
| Gaelic he heard his parents speaking when he was young; he also | 7 |
| was fluent in Latin; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, The passing of Maurice "Moe" Higgins has been | 9 |
| deeply felt by many, especially his daughters, Mary Celeste | 10 |
| Higgins, Helen Marie (George) Roe, and Patricia (John) Crowley; | 11 |
| his sons, Michael Higgins, Bill (Mary Beth) Higgins, and Jack | 12 |
| (Missy) Higgins, and his six grandchildren; therefore, be it | 13 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 |
| mourn the passing of Maurice "Moe" Higgins, and we offer our | 16 |
| sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew | 17 |
| and loved him; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the family of Mr. Higgins as an expression of our | 20 |
| deepest sympathy.
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