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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the |
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| State of Illinois
were saddened to learn of the death of |
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| Charles Johnson Collins of Arthur on Thursday, July 22, 2004; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Collins was born on August 24, 1913 near |
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| Lovington, the son of Clifton C. and Harriet E. Johnson |
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| Collins; he married Margaret Pyle in Rockford on December 12, |
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| 1969; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Collins attended the University of Illinois |
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| for one year in 1934, but a lack of money during the Great |
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| Depression forced him to leave school; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Collins was employed as General Manager of |
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| West Chevrolet in Lovington; in January, 1950, the dealership |
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| moved to Arthur where he was General Manager until the summer |
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| of 1953; he was then employed as a Service Equipment Manager |
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| for National Petro Chemical Corp. in Tuscola until the fall of |
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| 1954; he returned to Arthur as an employee of Ivan Trulock |
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| Chevrolet; in 1955, he and Gayle Daugherty purchased the |
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| Chevrolet dealership from Mr. Trulock and formed Collins and |
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| Daugherty Chevrolet, which they operated until 1976, at which |
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| time Mr. Collins retired; and |
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Collins served on the Dealers Council Peoria |
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| Zone during 1973 and 1974; he was an election judge starting in |
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| 1994; he was affiliated with the Lovington Christian Church and |
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| was a member of the Lovington AF & AM Masonic Lodge; he enjoyed |
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| fishing, golf, gardening, trap shooting, and music; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Charles Johnson Collins has been |
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| deeply felt by many, especially
his wife, Margaret; his |
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| daughters, Betty Walthall and her husband Louis, and Susan |