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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| learned with regret of the death of William A. "Bill" Williams |
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| of Richton Park on February 26, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on June 16, 1936, to Fred Sr. and |
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| Beatrice Williams on a farm in Gilmore, Arkansas; the family |
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| relocated to Chicago in the early 1940s; he served his country |
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| as a member of the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany, |
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| where he became fluent in German and later in French; and
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| WHEREAS, For years, he was a bus driver for the Chicago |
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| Transit Authority and later for the American Sightseeing Tour |
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| Bus Company; he was a favorite with German and French tourists |
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| because he could speak their languages; then in 1978, while |
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| driving for the Willet Bus Company, he became smitten with a |
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| young teacher he met at Kozminski Elementary School; he married |
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| Yvonne Brooks in 1980; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a man of many hobbies, including writing; |
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| he had two unpublished novels and was working on a family |
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| memoir; he previously had written a column for the Chicago |
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| Defender; he collected over 50 miniature cars with moving |
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| parts, including remote-controlled fire trucks; in his early |
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| 60s, he took up the guitar; he was a pack rat and loved |
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| westerns, music, good books, facts and trivia, telling jokes, |
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| and playing pranks; and
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| WHEREAS, After he retired in 2002 from Chicago's Department |
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| of Streets and Sanitation, he served his community as a member |
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| of the Richton Park Human Rights Commission for three years; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of William A. Williams has been deeply |
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| felt by many, especially his wife, Yvonne; his daughters, Debra |