Full Text of SR0401 93rd General Assembly
SR0401 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| were saddened to learn of the death of William L. Fay of | 4 |
| Jacksonville on January 18, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Fay was born on September 8, 1914 in Eau | 6 |
| Claire, Wisconsin, the son of William Augustus and Emily Jane | 7 |
| Allan Fay; and
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| WHEREAS, He married Elizabeth Long on June 29, 1940 in | 9 |
| Pontiac, and she preceded him in death on May 2, 1990; he later | 10 |
| married Patricia Hughes Becker on February 16, 1991; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Fay was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Illinois | 12 |
| College, class of 1935, where he was co-editor of the Rambler | 13 |
| and President of Sigma Pi Literary Society; he attended Culver | 14 |
| Summer Naval School from 1930-1932 and was one of the editors | 15 |
| of the Culver Vidette; from 1935-1938, he attended Harvard Law | 16 |
| School, where he was a member of the Powell Law Club and a | 17 |
| winning oralist in the Ames Moor Court Competition; he began | 18 |
| the practice of law in Chicago with the firm of Gardner, Carton & | 19 |
| Douglas; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, In 1942, he joined the United States Navy and was | 21 |
| sent to Ohio State for officer training; he served in Memphis, | 22 |
| Tennessee, then in the invasion of Sicily; later he was sent to | 23 |
| the South Pacific where he spent a year on the Russell Islands | 24 |
| as officer in charge of Airborne Training Unit 2, training B-25 | 25 |
| groups; during the last year of World War II, he was ordered to | 26 |
| the Glenview Naval Air Station near Chicago where he served as | 27 |
| aide to the commanding officer; finally, he was sent to several | 28 |
| bases in Kansas where B-29 crews were training for attacks on | 29 |
| Japan; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Fay held honorary degrees from both |
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| Jacksonville colleges, Illinois College and MacMurray College, | 2 |
| where he was a lifetime trustee; when Mr. Fay was released from | 3 |
| the Navy, he returned to Jacksonville and became a partner in | 4 |
| the Bellatti law firm; his first public office was secretary of | 5 |
| the Jacksonville Airport Authority, which he helped to | 6 |
| organize; he replaced Oscar Zachary as State's attorney and | 7 |
| later became Jacksonville's city attorney; a high point of his | 8 |
| legal career came when he was elected a delegate to the Sixth | 9 |
| Illinois Constitutional Convention and appointed by Samuel | 10 |
| Witwer as chairman of the Committee on Judiciary; when the | 11 |
| convention was over, the Chicago Tribune recognized Mr. Fay for | 12 |
| his outstanding service and referred to him as "a stabilizing | 13 |
| force both in committee and on the floor"; and
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| WHEREAS, He served in many civic posts, including president | 15 |
| of Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, and the YMCA; he recently | 16 |
| co-chaired the Jacksonville Public Library Rebuilding | 17 |
| Campaign; until the Jacksonville Journal-Courier was sold, Mr. | 18 |
| Fay was editorial director and shared opinions with his | 19 |
| brother, Robert, the publisher; he was also a member of the | 20 |
| Congregational Church; and
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| WHEREAS, A lifelong outdoorsman, Mr. Fay spent his summers | 22 |
| at Moscow Bay, near Bath, from the time he was an infant; he | 23 |
| chronicled his years spent there in the book "Life at Moscow | 24 |
| Bay," which he wrote and published in 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of William L. Fay will be deeply felt | 26 |
| by many, especially his wife, Patricia; his two daughters, | 27 |
| Emily (husband, Fred) Osburn and Ann Sterry Fay; his five | 28 |
| grandchildren, Elizabeth (husband, Peter) Cappas, Kathryn | 29 |
| (husband, Christopher Lu) Thomson, Sarah (husband, Garen) | 30 |
| Dodge, Rachel (husband, Hank) Gray, and Robert B. (wife, Erin) | 31 |
| Thomson III; his eight great-granchildren; his two stepsons, | 32 |
| Steve (wife, Daryl Jean) Becker and Jeffrey (wife, Linda) | 33 |
| Becker; his two step-daughters, Susan (husband, Tom) Feuerbach |
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| and Janet Becker Shouse; his nine step-grandchildren; and his | 2 |
| step-great-grandchild; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by twin sons, Christopher | 4 |
| Sterry and William Augustus; and his brother, Robert A. Fay; | 5 |
| therefore, be it | 6 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 7 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 8 |
| William L. Fay along with all who knew and loved him and extend | 9 |
| our sincere condolences to his family and friends; and be it | 10 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to the family of William L. Fay as an expression of | 13 |
| our deepest sympathy.
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