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90_HR0604
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of
4 Reverend August Friedrich Blobaum of St. Joseph, Illinois;
5 and
6 WHEREAS, August Blobaum was born in Cowles, Nebraska, on
7 February 9, 1904; his parents were Charles and Carolina
8 Busche Blobaum; on January 25, 1929 he married Marie Duden in
9 Flatville; and
10 WHEREAS, Reverend Blobaum attended school at District 37
11 Stillwater Township in Rosemont, Nebraska; he attended Hebron
12 Academy in Hebron, Nebraska; he graduated from Wartburg
13 Academy in Clinton, Iowa, in 1922, from Wartburg College in
14 1925, and from Wartburg Theological Seminary in 1928; and
15 WHEREAS, Reverend Blobaum served as a pastor for Lutheran
16 churches in Philo, Coatsburg, Forreston, Metropolis, and
17 Oregon; he also served in Loogootee, Indiana, Rhodes,
18 Michigan, and Humboldt, Nebraska; he served as Visitation
19 Pastor of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Thomasboro from
20 1972 to 1974, and taught parochial school at Stanton Center
21 during the summers of 1926 and 1927; and
22 WHEREAS, Reverend Blobaum is survived by his wife, Marie;
23 his four sons, Reverend Melvin Blobaum, Everett Blobaum,
24 Reverend Emil Blobaum, and Harold Blobaum; his two daughters,
25 Carolyn Schroeder and Linda Pein; his brother, Edwin Blobaum;
26 his sister, Frieda Blobaum; his seventeen grandchildren and
27 thirteen great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
28 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
29 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
30 mourn, along with family and friends, the death of Reverend
31 August Blobaum; may they find peace and solace in this time
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1 of need; and be it further
2 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
3 presented to his family with our sincere condolences.