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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Michael J. "Mike" Wagner of Greenfield,
4 who passed away on August 5, 2007; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Mike Wagner was born April 17, 1958, in
6 Jacksonville; he married Cheri Roth in April 1976; he later
7 married Amanda L. Cochran on Sept. 23, 2000, at Rockbridge
8 United Methodist Church; and
 
9     WHEREAS, Mike Wagner played football and basketball while
10 attending Greenfield High School, where he earned all
11 conference and MVP honors, and in track, where he qualified for
12 the 880 relay at State; he scored more than 1,000 career points
13 in basketball and was a running back on the MSM Conference
14 championship team and the first team to make the State
15 playoffs; he graduated from Greenfield High School in 1976 and
16 attended Illinois College; and
 
17     WHEREAS, He continued his love of Greenfield sports by
18 becoming a member of the Greenfield Athletic Club, where he
19 served as president; he played on several local men's softball
20 teams and coached many boys and girls youth league teams, where
21 he also served as commissioner from 1986 to 1990; he was a
22 member of the football chain crew and a football statistician;

 

 

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1 he was a member of the Woodbine Country Club Board of Directors
2 and served as league secretary for several years; he was the
3 secretary for the annual Ozark golf trip; he become a
4 basketball official in 1977, and has held offices in the
5 Midwestern Officials Association; and
 
6     WHEREAS, He was a past member of the After Prom Committee
7 and helped organize several fundraisers; he was a member of
8 Bowman's Legion; he was a member of the Greenfield Tiger Backer
9 Board for many years, serving as president; he helped organize
10 the Tiger Backer Golf Tournament for the past 10 years and
11 spent countless hours cooking before football games; he served
12 as vice-president of the Greenfield Football Quarterback Club
13 and helped organize its golf tournament for the past two years;
14 he was co-owner with his brother of Wagner Seed and Supply in
15 Rockbridge; and he was an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan who sent
16 many people to Busch stadium on the company's season tickets;
17 and
 
18     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his paternal
19 grandparents, Frank and Elta Tendick Wagner; maternal
20 grandparents, Orville E. and Maureen Macnamara Dalton; and a
21 beloved great-uncle, Harold "Unc" Tendick; and
 
22     WHEREAS, The passing of Michael Wagner will be deeply felt
23 by those who knew and loved him, especially his two daughters,

 

 

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1 Lisa Wagner and Anna Wagner; his son, Todd; his two
2 stepdaughters, Morgan and Madison Coates; his parents, Warren
3 "Wag" Wagner (spouse, Barb); and Nancy Dalton (spouse, Cliff)
4 Dawson; his sister, Deb (spouse, Terry) Settles; his brother,
5 Douglas Wagner; and his parents-in-law, Leon and Becky Hopper
6 Cochran; therefore, be it
 
7     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
8 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
9 his family and friends, the passing of Michael J. "Mike"
10 Wagner; and be it further
 
11     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
12 presented to the family of Michael J. "Mike" Wagner as a symbol
13 of our sympathy.