Full Text of SR0863 94th General Assembly
SR0863 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of Leon Welch, who passed away on November | 4 |
| 8, 2006; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, Leon Welch was born July 24, 1936 to Sam and | 6 |
| Geanie Welch in Anniston, Alabama; he was one of eight | 7 |
| children; and
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| WHEREAS, He attended Cobb High School where he met Margaret | 9 |
| Ann Dobbins, who became his wife; they were married for 49 | 10 |
| years and from their union Lisa Darlene and Kathryn Virginia | 11 |
| were born; and
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| WHEREAS, They moved from Anniston to Chicago in 1958 where | 13 |
| he worked as a longshoreman for Local 19 for more than thirty | 14 |
| years; he later furthered his education, and was the founder of | 15 |
| Acetronics Burglar Alarm Systems; he retired as a longshoreman | 16 |
| and from his business when his health began to challenge him in | 17 |
| 1993; and
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| WHEREAS, Leon Welch is survived by his wife, Margaret Ann | 19 |
| Welch; his daughters, Lisa Welch-Austin (Dwight Austin, | 20 |
| son-in-law) and Kathryn Welch; his sister, Eunice Jean Murphy | 21 |
| (Calvin Murphy, brother-in-law); his brother, J. C. Welch; his | 22 |
| grandson, Dwight Leander Austin; his brother-in-law, John | 23 |
| Bradford, Jr.; his nieces, Queen Welch and Libra Murphy; his | 24 |
| nephews, Charles Welch, Leander Murphy, Keyon Welch, and | 25 |
| Rashard Welch; his great nephew, Bashiri Williams; and a host | 26 |
| of extended family and close friends; and
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| WHEREAS, Leon Welch was preceded in death by his mother and | 28 |
| father, Geanie Welch and Sam Welch, Sr.; his brothers, Sam and | 29 |
| Calvin Welch; his sisters, Jessie Welch, Kathryn Welch, and | 30 |
| Ethel Welch-Huff; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 2 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 3 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Leon Welch; and be it | 4 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 |
| presented to the family of Leon Welch.
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