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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
3learn of the death of Donald R. Shaner of Wheaton, who passed 
4away on March 10, 2015; and
  
 
5    WHEREAS, Donald Shaner was born in 1926 in DeKalb and lived 
6the majority of his life in Wheaton; he graduated from Wheaton 
7Community
High School and served  in the United States
Navy in 
8the Philippines during World War II; he married Twylah Havens 
9in 1948 and graduated from
the University of Illinois with a 
10bachelor's degree in mechanical
engineering in 1950; the 
11following year he earned his master's degree in the same 
12subject from the University of Illinois; and
  
 
13    WHEREAS, After college,            Donald Shaner              worked as an engineer 
14for 3M in Minnesota; he then returned to the Chicago area and  
15worked as an engineer at the Elgin Watch Co.; he also worked in 
16management for  the Skokie-based International Mineral & 
17Chemical; in the mid-1960s, he joined Warren King and 
18Associates as a consultant, and, in 1968, he started his own 
19consulting firm; after his retirement in 1993, he served on the 
20Wheaton Warrenville
School Board for 4 years from 1997 to 2001; 
21and
  
 
  
22    WHEREAS, Donald Shaner was preceded in death by his wife of 
 
 
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155 years,
Twylah and his brother, Herbert Shaner, Jr.; and
  
 
2    WHEREAS, Donald Shaner is survived by his brother, Victor 
3Shaner;
his daughter, Sandra (Wendell) Grogan; his son,
Chris 
4(Sue) Shaner; and his 4
grandchildren; therefore, be it
  
 
5    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL 
6ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of 
7Donald R. Shaner, and extend our sincere condolences to his 
8family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it 
9further
  
 
10    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
11presented to the family of Donald Shaner as an expression of 
12our deepest sympathy.