Full Text of SR0028 94th General Assembly
SR0028 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Donald Bernard Farmer, U.S. Army, | 3 |
| lost his life in Kuwait on December 19, 2004, when he was hit | 4 |
| by a vehicle after stopping to help someone who had a flat | 5 |
| tire; and
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| WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Farmer, age 33, and a former | 7 |
| Marine, grew up in Zion and was a 1989 graduate of Zion-Benton | 8 |
| Township High School; he had an excellent record and was | 9 |
| well-liked and well-respected at the high school where he was a | 10 |
| standout on the football and track teams; he was a member of | 11 |
| the high school's only undefeated football team his senior | 12 |
| year; and
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| WHEREAS, He will be remembered as a little guy with a big | 14 |
| heart; he was a wonderful man who loved the military service; | 15 |
| he was very diligent with a good sense of humor, an excellent | 16 |
| athlete, a person people gravitated toward because of his great | 17 |
| disposition and ability to make people laugh; he was a man with | 18 |
| an open heart and a caring soul, a man who many felt they were | 19 |
| blessed to know and a man who will be sorely missed; and
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| WHEREAS, His willingness to serve his country will never be | 21 |
| forgotten by a grateful State and nation; it is because of true | 22 |
| heroes like Donald that each U.S. citizen has the freedoms they | 23 |
| enjoy; and
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| WHEREAS, He is survived by his wife, Shanda Farmer; his | 25 |
| children, Sharon, Dashaun, and Darion; his mother and father, | 26 |
| Gwendolyn and Donald G. Farmer; his sister, Jennifer Farmer; | 27 |
| and his brothers, Donovan Truss and Desmond Truss; therefore, | 28 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 30 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that together with his |
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| family, friends, fellow members of the United States armed | 2 |
| forces, and the citizens of this State and this great nation, | 3 |
| we mourn the passing of Staff Sergeant Donald Bernard Farmer | 4 |
| and we extend to his family our sincerest condolences; and be | 5 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 8 |
| sympathy.
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