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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Richard Raymond Bairstow of Waukegan, who
4 passed away on May 21, 2008; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Richard Raymond Bairstow was born September 26,
6 1917 in Waukegan, the son of the late Fred Raymond and Mildred
7 Wright Bairstow; he attended North School and Waukegan Township
8 High School, graduating in 1935; he attended the University of
9 Illinois, graduating in 1939; he was a member of Delta Tau
10 Delta fraternity; he was a student at the National University
11 of Mexico in Mexico City and studied Law at George Washington
12 University in Washington, D.C., where he was president of his
13 class and a member of the jumping team; and
 
14     WHEREAS, After the war he returned to the law school at the
15 University of Illinois; he was a member of Phi Alpha Delta law
16 fraternity and received his Juris Doctorate in 1947; he
17 practiced law in Waukegan and Lake County, was an Assistant
18 State's Attorney, and for 50 years was attorney for the Fox
19 Lake Fire Protection District; he was an Administrative Law
20 Judge for the State of Illinois Department of Revenue in
21 Chicago for 34 years; he helped organize, was attorney for, and
22 he was on the Board of Directors of Little Fort Bank and Trust
23 Company of Waukegan (now Fifth Third Bank); and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, He was a life member of the Lake County, State of
2 Illinois, and American Bar Associations; he was admitted to the
3 U.S. District Court, the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, and
4 the U.S. Supreme Court; he was listed in Who's Who In American
5 Law, In Commerce and Industry, In the Midwest, In America, and
6 In the World; Mr. Bairstow was past president of the
7 Waukegan-North Chicago Junior Chamber of Commerce, the
8 Salvation Army, the Fort Sheridan Chapter of the Association of
9 the U.S. Army, and served on the Boards of Directors of the
10 American Red Cross and the YMCA; he was a Republican precinct
11 committeeman for 25 years, was a past president of the Waukegan
12 Township Republican Organization, and was a member of the State
13 Board of Directors of the Young Republicans; and
 
14     WHEREAS, He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the
15 horse cavalry, but prior to Pearl Harbor he was sent to Armored
16 Forces School at Fort Knox, Kentucky and became a tanker; he
17 commanded the 5th Tank Battalion the 16th Armored Division; he
18 was in the attacking forces at Omaha Beach in Normandy during
19 the liberation of France; he served in Psychological Warfare, a
20 Special Staff Division of Supreme Headquarters, Allied
21 Expeditionary Forces, under General Eisenhower; he was in the
22 campaigns of France, Luxembourg, and Germany in World War II
23 and was in the Information Control Division in the Army of
24 Occupation; he was a graduate of the Command and General Staff

 

 

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1 College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Army Logistical
2 School; he was an expert in Special Warfare, and for many years
3 commanded the Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Battalion at
4 O'Hare Field in Chicago; he last served under the Deputy Chief
5 of Staff for Special Operations in the Pentagon, and he retired
6 a Colonel after 32 years of service; and
 
7     WHEREAS, He was a faithful member of Christ Episcopal
8 Church and the Men's Bible Group; he was Judge Advocate and a
9 life member of the American Legion Homer Dahringer Post and a
10 life member of the Military Officers Association of America; he
11 was also a member of the Elks, Waukegan City Club, the Honest
12 John Club, the Waukegan Historical Society, and Glen Flora
13 Country Club; and
 
14     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents; his first
15 wife and the mother of his daughters, Mary Kelley Bairstow; his
16 second wife, Agnes Macaitis Caldwell Bairstow; his brothers,
17 Robert Wright Bairstow and William Royer Bairstow; and his
18 brother-in-law, Clarence Kelley; and
 
19     WHEREAS, He is survived by his daughters, Kathleen (James)
20 Young, Suzanne (Lucky) Hicks, and Mary "Mimi' Neely; his
21 stepchildren, Judy (Stanley) Miscichowski and Roy Arthur
22 (Kathleen) Caldwell; his sister-in-law, Valve Kelley; his
23 grandchildren, Jennifer Neely, Joshua, Mary, and John Young,

 

 

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1 Leigh Ann Miscichowski, and Roy, Patrick, and Kelley Ann
2 Caldwell; his nieces, Betsy (Dan) Morse, Lael (Syd) Yudain,
3 Marsha (Robert) Plagens, and Janice (Edward) Scarbalis; his
4 nephews, Robert (Mary) Bairstow, Andrew (Lowe) Bairstow, and
5 Mark (Susan) Kelley; along with his many other cousins and dear
6 friends; 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 Richard Bairstow; and be
10 it further
 
11     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
12 presented to the family of Richard Bairstow as a symbol of our
13 sincere sympathy.