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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Frederick A. Dolan II of Normal, who
4 passed away on October 29, 2009; and
 
5     WHEREAS, He was born February 7, 1924, in New York New
6 York, the son of Frederick A. and Marjorie Bruen Dolan; he
7 married Jacqueline S. Vlaskamp on May 24, 1947, in Dayton,
8 Ohio; he graduated from Bloomington High School in 1941; he
9 then attended and graduated from Carnegie Institute of
10 Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he received a
11 Bachelor of Science degree in printing technology and met his
12 then wife-to-be, Jackie; and
 
13     WHEREAS, He served during World War II with the 101st
14 Infantry, 26th Division in the European Theater from October
15 1944 to April 1945; he participated in the Battle of the Bulge
16 and was awarded the Purple Heart with oak leaf clusters during
17 his service; his work career began when he returned to
18 Bloomington in 1947 to join the family business, Pantagraph
19 Printing & Stationary Company; he assumed its leadership
20 following the death of his father in 1960 and was the third
21 generation of his family to work at the Pantagraph, retiring in
22 2005 after 58 years of service; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, He was involved in numerous civic and charitable
2 activities throughout his life; major associations included
3 the YMCA, the United Way of McLean County (as well as its
4 predecessor, the United Fund), and the local
5 Unitarian/Universalist Church, where he also led the
6 fundraising drive to construct the building the church
7 presently occupies; his last major and ongoing endeavor was
8 with the McLean County Historical Society and the development
9 of the Museum of History, serving as president of the Society
10 for three terms and spearheading the successful fund drive to
11 secure the former county courthouse as the permanent site for
12 the museum; and
 
13     WHEREAS, He was a member of Wade Barney Lodge No. 512 and
14 the Scottish Rite Valley of Bloomington, where he had served as
15 commander in chief of the Bloomington Consistory; he was
16 awarded the honorary 33 degree, the highest degree in Masonry,
17 in 1968; and
 
18     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife; his parents;
19 an infant son; and his beloved sister, Jessie Behr; and
 
20     WHEREAS, Frederick Dolan is survived by his two sons,
21 Michael (Carole) and Fred III (Gay); his grandchildren,
22 Nicholas (Jennifer) Dolan and Gretchen Chesley; and his close
23 friend, travel companion, and brother-in-law, Carl Behr;

 

 

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