Full Text of SR0888 94th General Assembly
SR0888 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Donald E. Brown of Aurora | 4 |
| on Monday, September 4, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on August 22, 1906, in Monrovia, | 6 |
| California, to Charles Edward and Sadie Harriett (Peterson) | 7 |
| Brown; he was united in marriage to Claire E. Iftner on | 8 |
| December 29, 1934, in Pittsfield; his schooling took him from | 9 |
| California to Texas, Iowa, and finally Zion, Illinois, where he | 10 |
| graduated from Zion Preparatory College in June of 1924; and
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| WHEREAS, He worked for the Chicago office of the | 12 |
| Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company; he attended | 13 |
| Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, from 1925 to 1927; in 1926 | 14 |
| he worked with an electric company installing poles and | 15 |
| transmission wires from Downers Grove to Naperville; | 16 |
| throughout the rest of the 1920s he worked with Commonwealth | 17 |
| Edison, worked as an apprentice plumber, and worked with the | 18 |
| Illinois Bell Telephone Company; in 1931 he attended North | 19 |
| Central College in Naperville, where he met his future wife; he | 20 |
| graduated from North Central College in June of 1934 and during | 21 |
| the rest of the 1930s worked for IBT office in Chicago, the | 22 |
| Wheaton Recreation Project under the WPA, and East Aurora High | 23 |
| School as a bookkeeper and their first wrestling coach; he | 24 |
| taught first-year accounting at Elgin Community College; he | 25 |
| also taught numerous accounting courses for Aurora University | 26 |
| from 1965-1974; in 2002 he was voted into the East Aurora High | 27 |
| School Athletic Hall of Fame; and
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| WHEREAS, He was a member of the National Education | 29 |
| Association, the Illinois Education Association, the National | 30 |
| Retired Teachers Association, the Illinois Retired Teachers | 31 |
| Association, the Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association, and | 32 |
| the Aurora Golden K Kiwanis Club; he attended the First |
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| Presbyterian Church of Aurora for over sixty years; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Donald E. Brown has been deeply | 3 |
| felt by many, especially his children, Ben (Mary) Brown, Joyce | 4 |
| Orland, JanClaire Elliott (David Gold), and Kent (Karen) Brown; | 5 |
| his grandchildren, Rodney (Elizabeth) Brown, Cathy (Dave) | 6 |
| Magee, Donald (Deanne) Brown, Gary (Julie) Brown, Michael | 7 |
| (Diane) Orland, Jeffrey (Diane) Orland, Ronald (Kim) Hamm, Dr. | 8 |
| Markus (Katie Godinez) Hamm, Gregory Hamm, Trisha (Chad) Cheek, | 9 |
| and Jennifer and Erik Brown; his great-grandchildren, Olivia | 10 |
| Brown, Ross, Jess, Emily, Erika, Lindsey and Matthew Magee, | 11 |
| Megan and Ryan Brown, Justin Link, Mallory Harris, Alexia and | 12 |
| Grant Shenburg, Jacob, Nicole and Joshua Brown, Stephanie (Jon) | 13 |
| Schmalensee, Michael, Joseph and Jacob Orland, Mike (Vena) and | 14 |
| Rob (Shannon) Bruce, Nikhia, Aaron, Meghan and Alicia Hamm; and | 15 |
| his great-great grandchildren, Vincent, Jacob, Kayla, and | 16 |
| Maxwell Bruce; his sister-in-laws, Frances and Helen Brown; his | 17 |
| brother-in-laws, Joseph (Elisabeth) and Carl (Marie) Iftner, | 18 |
| many nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews; he was | 19 |
| preceded in death by his wife; his parents; his brothers, | 20 |
| Arthur (Marjorie), Nathaniel, and David; his sister, Carol (Jim | 21 |
| Speranza); a sister in infancy; and his grandsons, Thomas L. | 22 |
| and Stephen C. Orland; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 24 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 25 |
| Donald E. Brown, and we extend our sincere condolences to his | 26 |
| family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 27 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 29 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 30 |
| sympathy.
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