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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Roy Fair of Sugar Grove, who passed away
4 on September 30, 2007; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Roy Fair was born July 11, 1935, in Myrtle,
6 Mississippi, the son of Sybil Fair (nee Aston) and the late Roy
7 Fair Sr.; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Roy Fair was in the real estate business,
9 beginning in 1959; he started his own company in Aurora in
10 1963, and achieved a 60% market share in the Aurora market
11 under the Fair & Company flag; he maintained offices in
12 Yorkville, Geneva, Montgomery, Naperville, and Aurora during
13 those years; and
 
14     WHEREAS, He served on the Aurora Board of Realtors for many
15 years, becoming its president in 1968 and eventually serving as
16 president of the Illinois Association of Realtors in 1980; Mr.
17 Fair continued to serve the association at all three levels and
18 had finished his 22nd year as a director of the National
19 Association of Realtors; he was awarded the highest honor of
20 the association by being named Realtor of the Year by the
21 Aurora Association in 1973, and Realtor of the Year by the
22 Illinois State Association in 1982; in 2003, he was awarded the

 

 

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1 coveted Hall of Fame Award from the Aurora Tri-County
2 Association of Realtors for his continuing dedication and
3 service to the industry; and
 
4     WHEREAS, As chairman of the National Legislative
5 Committee, Mr. Fair was instrumental in securing legislation to
6 allow the FHA interest rate to float with the market; during
7 his years in the business he built over 400 homes in the Aurora
8 area, purchased, rehabbed, and financed over 100 low and
9 moderate income houses, trained hundreds of real estate agents
10 in the sales end of the business, and developed and managed
11 numerous real estate investments; he carried the prestigious
12 Realtor designation of Certified Residential Broker; he served
13 as chairman of the South Kane County American Cancer Crusade,
14 chairman of the Downtown Aurora Committee of the Aurora Chamber
15 of Commerce, director of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce, and on
16 Governor Thompson's Task Force on Home Ownership; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Roy Fair is survived by his wife, Sue
18 Wiskowski-Fair; his sons, Mike (Laurie) Fair, Terry (Cindy)
19 Fair, and David (Debbie) Fair; his twelve grandchildren, Sandy
20 (Bob) Cary, Susan (Mark) Alsip, Samantha (George) Pilgrim,
21 Garett Fair, Derek Fair, Jared Fair, Shana Fair, Richard Fair,
22 John (Stacy) Fair, Andrea Fair, James Fair, and Selena Hensley;
23 his twelve great-grandchildren; his mother, Sybil Fair; his
24 sisters, Doris (Fred) Moore, and Ann Louise (Sonny) Churchill;

 

 

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1 and his brother, Billy Fair; therefore, be it
 
2     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
3 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
4 his family and friends, the passing of Roy Fair; and be it
5 further
 
6     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
7 presented to the family of Roy Fair as a symbol of our
8 sympathy.