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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 Harold Myron Cox of |
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| Brighton on Tuesday, September 26, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on December 15, 1932, in White Hall to |
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| Harvey Wayne and Maude Geraldine (Fox) Cox; and
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| WHEREAS, He valiantly served his country as a member of the |
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| U.S. Army during the Korean War; he was a sergeant with the |
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| Alton Police Department, serving from May 1957 to June 1977; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Cox was a member of the Alton VFW Post 1308, a |
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| former member of the Alton Eagles #254, and was a 1951 graduate |
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| from Roodhouse High School; and
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| WHEREAS, He was united in marriage to Janice Metzler on |
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| December 4, 1987, in Jerseyville; she preceded him in death on |
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| September 24, 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Harold Myron Cox has been deeply |
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| felt by many, especially his daughters and sons-in-law, Linda |
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| and Bill Fitzgerald, Catherine and Greg Lister, Karen and Jeff |
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| Auston, and Debbie and Bob Clothier; his grandchildren, Matt |
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| Fitzgerald, Laura Fitzgerald, Mary Cordes, Sarah Paddock, |
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| Becky Saville, Emily Paddock, Hannah Auston, Adam Lister, Eric |
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| Lister, and Ashley, Cory, and David Clothier; his |
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| step-grandchildren, Jason Auston and Jamie Auston; his |
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| great-grandson, Brian Matthew Fitzgerald; and his brother, |
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| Cloyd E. Cox; in addition to his wife, he was preceded in death |
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| by his parents, and his brothers, Hal Melvin Cox and Gerald H. |
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| Cox; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL |