Full Text of SR0921 94th General Assembly
SR0921 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to express | 3 |
| their sincere condolences to the family and friends of Thomas | 4 |
| K. Hutchinson of Godfrey, Illinois, who passed away on January | 5 |
| 1, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Hutchinson was born in Alton on October 30, | 7 |
| 1924; his parents were O.C.K. Hutchinson and Cora (Wuerker) | 8 |
| Hutchinson; and
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| WHEREAS, He graduated from the New York Maritime Academy in | 10 |
| 1942; he met his first wife, Nancy Jane Brokaw, while serving | 11 |
| in the Merchant Marines during World War II; they were married | 12 |
| on March 22, 1947; she preceded him in death on June 10, 1983; | 13 |
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| WHEREAS, After World War II he returned to Alton; from | 15 |
| humble beginnings in a garage, Thomas Hutchinson and his father | 16 |
| began Hutchinson Foundry Products, which became the largest | 17 |
| independently owned manufacturer of rotors in the United | 18 |
| States; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1971, Mr. Hutchinson was appointed to the Alton | 20 |
| Memorial Hospital Board of Directors, where he served as | 21 |
| chairman of many committees, including the building and grounds | 22 |
| committee; after his retirement, he continued to serve, | 23 |
| remaining on the Hospital Foundation Board of Directors; he | 24 |
| also served as president of both Lewis and Clark Community | 25 |
| College and the Foundation Board of Directors and the Lockhaven | 26 |
| Development Board of Directors; and | 27 |
| WHEREAS,
A lifelong love for hunting and firearms began at | 28 |
| the age of 5 when his father took him hunting for the first | 29 |
| time; he started his gun collection at age 8 with the | 30 |
| acquisition of a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun; at first he collected |
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| air guns and had built up one of the finest collections in the | 2 |
| United States when he donated it to the Buffalo Bill Historical | 3 |
| Center in Cody, Wyoming; he continued his collection, in part | 4 |
| inspired by the study of his great-uncle, Frederick Wuerker, a | 5 |
| fine gun maker in Alton during the 1850s; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS,
Thomas Hutchinson was a member of the Winchester | 7 |
| Advisory Board of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, a member | 8 |
| of the Ohio Gun Collectors Association, the National Rifle | 9 |
| Association, the Colt Collectors Association, Ducks Unlimited, | 10 |
| the Winchester Club of America, and the American Society of | 11 |
| Arms Collectors; his gun collection, one of the largest in the | 12 |
| country in private hands, was sold at auction in 2002 to fund a | 13 |
| charitable remainder trust to benefit the Alton community; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS,
Thomas Hutchinson also inherited both of his | 15 |
| parents' passion for the conservation of wildlife and | 16 |
| ornithology; in 1992, he donated more than 100 acres of land to | 17 |
| the Great Rivers Land Preservation Organization as a bird | 18 |
| sanctuary in memory of his parents; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, On November 12, 1988, he married Lonjeana "Jeana" | 20 |
| (Gunn) Lukowski in Hannibal, Missouri; and
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Hutchinson was a member of the Alton Nature | 22 |
| League and Ainad Shrine Temple of East St. Louis; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, Thomas Hutchinson is survived by his wife, Jeana; | 24 |
| his daughters, Cathy (Richard) Whittlesey, Gail (Kent) | 25 |
| Clarkson, Pam (Matt) Bishop, and Susie (David) Moore; his | 26 |
| stepchildren, Elizabeth (Brian) Boyer, Vincent Lukowski, | 27 |
| Jennifer (Jim) McClintock, Marion (Scott) Taylor, and Joanne | 28 |
| (Scott) Lammert; his grandchildren, Kristin (Kory) Stolte, | 29 |
| Mark (Kim) Whittlesey, Paige (Chris) Fleener, Peter (Jackie) | 30 |
| Priester, Kyle and Melissa Symes, and Brett and Adam Hartig; | 31 |
| his step-grandchildren, John Lukowski, Juliet and Jared |
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| McClintock, Morgan and Andrew Taylor and Jordan, Samantha and | 2 |
| Tyler Lammert; and his great-grandchildren, Sam and Emma Stolte | 3 |
| and Jack Fleener; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 5 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 6 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Thomas Hutchinson; and | 7 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to the family of Thomas Hutchinson.
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