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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Donald L. Cannon of Gurnee, who passed
4 away on June 16, 2007; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Donald Cannon was born in Waukegan on October 9,
6 1928, the seventh child of Leslie and Mary "Mamie" Cannon and
7 grew up in Gurnee with his five sisters and one brother; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Donald Cannon attended Gurnee Grade School and was
9 a Class of 1946 graduate from Warren Township High School,
10 where he excelled on the football and baseball fields and on
11 the basketball court; his skill in football led to a full four
12 year scholarship to Northeast Missouri State Teacher's College
13 in Kirksville, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1950; he
14 continued his football career playing for the United States
15 Army and the Waukegan Merchants, a local semi-pro team; after
16 college he entered the United States Army Airborne Division and
17 served as a paratrooper during the Korean War; and
 
18     WHEREAS, He married Elaine Jahnke at St. Patrick's Church
19 in West Lake Forest on May 23, 1953; after working briefly for
20 the Hough Company and Standard Oil Company, Don became a
21 popular businessman, owning Cannon and Myers Service Stations
22 in Grayslake and in Third Lake, from which he retired in April,

 

 

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1 1989; he was a member of the Gurnee Community Church; and
 
2     WHEREAS, He will be remembered as a man with a great sense
3 of humor who loved birds and gardening; he was an avid reader
4 and sports enthusiast, as well as a man who loved to play golf
5 and bridge with his friends, and Monopoly with his two
6 grandchildren; during his golfing days, he shot three
7 holes-in-one; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Donald Cannon is survived by his wife, Barbara
9 (Richardson) whom he married in August 1991; his children,
10 Michael (Kathleen), and Christopher (Kim); his grandchildren,
11 Cody and Cassidy and Mary Lou (Doug Murphy); his sisters, Norma
12 Cunningham and Dorothy (Ed) Bennecke Bonovitz; and his many
13 nieces and nephews; he was preceded in death by his parents;
14 siblings, Nellie Porter, Russell Cannon, Beulah Porter, and
15 Carol Lodesky; his first wife, Elaine; and his daughter,
16 Kimberly; therefore, be it
 
17     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
18 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
19 his family and friends, the passing of Donald Cannon; and be it
20 further
 
21     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
22 presented to the family of Donald L. Cannon as a symbol of our

 

 

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1 sympathy.