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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Charles Edward McChesney of Gladstone passed away |
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| on November 6, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born in Burlington, Iowa on May 18, 1928 to |
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| Clarence Dale and Maud Della Charles McChesney; he graduated |
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| from Biggsville High School in 1945 and attended Iowa State |
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| University; on April 23, 1948, he married Edith Marie Conner; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, He was a farmer and a livestock feeder, a |
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| grassroots politician and a life-long public servant; he was |
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| one of the founders of Gladstone Grain Company and the Gulfport |
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| River Terminal; for several years he operated Cheap Charlie's, |
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| a retail outlet for salvaged goods; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a 4-H Club leader and president of the |
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| Gladstone PTA; he served on the Unit #115 School Board; he |
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| served on the Henderson County Fair Board; he was a director on |
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| the Western Illinois Electric Cooperative board; he was a |
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| co-founder of the Tri-County Cattlemen's Association and |
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| Hend-Co-Hills Golf & Country Club; he was a host farmer to |
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| Japanese exchange students through the Japanese Agricultural |
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| Training Program and was one of only two farmers to tour Japan |
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| compliments of the Program; and
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| WHEREAS, He served as chairman of the Henderson County |
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| Young Republicans; he founded and organized the Highway 34 |
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| Coalition and lobbied elected officials in Washington for |
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| federal funds to re-route the U.S. Route 34 project between |
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| Monmouth, Illinois and Burlington, Iowa; he was a member of |
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| Biggsville Methodist Church and, later, of Monmouth's First |
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| Baptist Church; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Charles Edward McChesney will be |