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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Ford C. "Bim" June Jr., who passed away
4 on November 27, 2008; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Ford C. June Jr. was born December 5, 1923; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Bim, a lifelong Joliet resident, attended Taft and
7 Farragut grade schools and was in the class of 1942 at Joliet
8 Township High School; while in high school he was a C.Y.O. and
9 Golden Gloves boxing champion; and
 
10     WHEREAS, During World War II, he served as a lieutenant
11 with the 13th Army Air Corps as a B-24 pilot in the South
12 Pacific; he retired from the United States Department of
13 Defense, where he worked in the procurement section at the
14 Joliet Ordinance Ammunition Command/Army Procurement and
15 Supply Agency (APSA); while at APSA, Bim served on a special
16 team which spent six months in 1963 advising the government of
17 Iran; and he was one of the founders of the APSA Rod & Gun Club;
18 and
 
19     WHEREAS, Bim was an avid hunter and especially enjoyed
20 fishing in the waters off Stuart, Florida; Bim was one of the
21 original organizers of the "Save Central" campaign in 1981 and

 

 

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1 was elected to the Joliet Township High School Board of
2 Education in one of the largest write-in campaigns in Will
3 County history; he later served as president of the Joliet
4 Township High School Board; Bim had also been a member of the
5 Elks Club of Joliet and the Joliet Country Club; and
 
6     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife, Lorraine
7 "Dolly" (Petersen) June; his parents, Dorothy Dibell June and
8 Ford C. June; his brother, Charles D. June; and his sister,
9 Virginia "Cis" (June) Tracy; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Ford June Jr. is survived by his three sons, Ford
11 C. "Chet" (Judy) June, III, Peter Boyd (Janet) June, and David
12 A. "Andy" (Cindy) June; his grandchildren, Kathryn Lynn June,
13 Matthew Petersen June, and Morgan Lorraine June; and Amanda
14 Suomela June and Hannah Lillian June; his
15 granddaughter-in-law, Chang Suk Weber; his
16 great-grandchildren, Robert James Weber, III, Angelica Kathren
17 Weber, and Sarah Ann Weber; his great-great-granddaughter,
18 Madison Nichole Weber; his nieces, Laura Lynn (June) Maycen and
19 Susan Marie (June) Hildebrand; therefore, be it
 
20     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
21 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
22 his family and friends, the passing of Ford C. "Bim" June Jr.;
23 and be it further
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
2 presented to the family of Ford C. "Bim" June Jr. as a symbol
3 of our sincere sympathy.