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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives are pleased to congratulate Bernard (Bernie)
4L. and Beverly (Bev) J. Thieben on the occasion of their 50th
5wedding anniversary; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Bernie Thieben was born November 1, 1932, and
7worked for 37 years at Caterpillar, Inc., served as supervisor
8of Medina Township for 36 years, and owned a local auto body
9shop for 12 years; and
 
10    WHEREAS, Bernie Thieben is also a past president of Peoria
11County's Township Official Association and was chairman of the
12Township Officials of Illinois Risk Management Association, a
13member of the Peoria County Republican Central Committee, Odd
14Fellows, Lions Club, and an active member of the Illinois
15Scottish Rite Lodge as a 32nd degree Mason and Shriner; he
16currently is an Elder at La Prairie Presbyterian Church and a
17board member of the Chillicothe-based Rescue 33 Ambulance
18Service; and
 
19    WHEREAS, Bev Thieben was born Beverly J. Buskirk on June
2019, 1940, and served as an administrative assistant for Medina
21Township for 25 years, worked at the Peoria County Courthouse
22in the Election Office for 5 years, operated a beauty salon for

 

 

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17 years, served many years as a room mother at Mossville Junior
2High, was a member of the Peoria County Rural Council on Aging
3Board, and helped co-found the Mossville Softball Summer League
4in 1972, one of the first in Central Illinois; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Bernie Thieben and Bev Buskirk married April 13,
61963, at the United Methodist Church in Mossville in a ceremony
7performed by H. Keith Gaither, Jr. M.G.; and
 
8    WHEREAS, On April 13, 2013, Bernie and Bev Thieben will be
9joined in celebration by their children, Denise Thieben, Le Ann
10and Guy Krulac, Paulette and Jim Korte, James and Betsey West,
11Scott L. West, Bernard H. Thieben, and Elizabeth McKeever;
12their grandchildren, Joshua Broughton, Dawn Davis, Nicole
13Jarvis, Nicholas Thieben, Stephanie West, Christopher Panek,
14Robert West, Jessica West, Rachael West, Michael Krulac, Jimmy
15Krulac, Scott C. West, Amy Costa, Tasha McKeever, Kent
16McKeever, and Rachel Korte; and their great-grandchildren,
17Jacob Broughton, Dakota Williams, Hunter Jarvis, Bryson
18Jarvis, Olivia Whitehurst, Logan Thieben, Mason Thieben,
19Ezekiel Krulac, Kaelyn Krulac, and Christian Jarvis; and will
20be missing their child, Ricky Thieben, who passed away;
21therefore, be it
 
22    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
23NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that

 

 

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1we congratulate Bernie and Bev Thieben on their 50th wedding
2anniversary and wish them many more happy years together; and
3be it further
 
4    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
5presented to Bernard L. Thieben and Beverly J. Thieben as an
6expression of our esteem and respect.