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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to |
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| learn of the death of Dr. Ferd J. Mueller, who passed away on |
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| May 8, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Ferd J. Mueller was born on November 30, 1921 in |
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| Belleville; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Mueller graduated from Saint Louis University |
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| School of Medicine in 1945 and served with the United States |
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| Army Medical Corps during World War II; after World War II he |
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| practiced general medicine in Odell, Illinois for five years; |
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| he completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at |
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| Saint Louis University Group Hospitals in 1956 and then began |
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| his medical practice in Belleville; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Mueller was a proud member of the Saint Louis |
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| University Billiken basketball team during his college days; he |
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| was a lifelong supporter of Saint Louis University as an |
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| honorary member of the DuBourg Society and the Billiken Tip Off |
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| Club; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Mueller was chief of staff at St. Elizabeth's |
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| Hospital in Belleville; he was a member of the St. Clair County |
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| Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical Society, the |
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| American Medical Association, and the St. Louis GYN Society; he |
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| was a past president of the Catholic Physicians and Dental |
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| Guild; he was a member of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic |
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| Church in Belleville and a charter member of the Serra Club of |
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| St. Clair County; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Mueller served on the school board of Our Lady |
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| Queen of Peace Grade School and the first school board of |
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| Althoff Catholic High School; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Mueller was preceded in death by his parents, |
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| Ferd E. and Odilia M., nee Lindenberger, Mueller; and
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| WHEREAS, He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Catherine |
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| M., nee Rost, Mueller, whom he married on September 18, 1944; |
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| his sons and daughters, Dr. Stephen V. Mueller, Marybeth (Dr. |
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| Curt) Ries, Barbara J. Lombardo, Margo A. Mueller, Dr. Ferd J. |
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| Jr. (Allison) Mueller, Michael W. Mueller, Mark C. Mueller, and |
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| Tom M. Mueller; his sister, Marilyn E. Louraine Rowan; his 17 |
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| grandchildren; and his four great-grandchildren; therefore, be |
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| it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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| his family and friends, the passing of Dr. Ferd J. Mueller; and |
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| be it further
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