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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Robert E. Lee of Batavia, who passed away
4 on May 6, 2008; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was born on April 9, 1924 in Aurora;
6 his parents were Emmett Lehr Lee, M.D. and Sylvia Chenoweth
7 Lee; he married Geraldine (Matthews) in 1945; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee attended Aurora schools and
9 graduated from high school at Culver Military Academy in
10 Culver, Indiana in 1942; he obtained his bachelor's degree at
11 Ohio State University, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta
12 fraternity, and graduated in 1949; he graduated from the
13 University of Illinois College of Dentistry in 1953; and
 
14     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee served with pride and distinction as
15 a member of the Army Air Corps during World War II in the 8th
16 Air Force based in England; and
 
17     WHEREAS, After graduating from the University of Illinois
18 College Of Dentistry, Robert E. Lee began his career as a
19 dentist in the same Aurora building where his father had
20 practiced medicine and his father-in-law had practiced
21 dentistry; he practiced in this building until 1996; he also

 

 

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1 served as an associate professor in the department of
2 periodontics at the University of Illinois from 1964 to 1988;
3 and
 
4     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was an active member of his
5 community; he was elected to the Batavia school board in 1966
6 and served as its president from 1969 to 1972; and
 
7     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was a long-time member of the
8 Congregational Church of Batavia; he enjoyed attending the
9 Saturday morning men's Bible study during his retirement years;
10 and
 
11     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee was preceded in death by his
12 daughter, Nancy Lee Sayers; his brother and sister; and his
13 parents; and
 
14     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee is survived by his wife; his sons,
15 Mark and William Emmett Lee; and his four grandchildren; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Robert E. Lee will be remembered by all who knew
17 and loved him as a man who was always ready with a joke, a great
18 dancer, a lover of big band music, and as a man who loved his
19 family dearly; therefore, be it
 
20     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL

 

 

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1 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
2 his family and friends, the passing of Robert E. Lee; and be it
3 further
 
4     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
5 presented to the family of Robert E. Lee as an expression of
6 our sympathy.