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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened by |
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| the death of Frank McCartney Jr. of Pittsfield, who passed away |
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| on August 24, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Frank McCartney Jr. was born September 14, 1926 in |
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| Summer Hill; his parents were the late Frank and Isabel |
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| McGreevy McCartney; and
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| WHEREAS, On February 22, 1944 he married Mildred Allen |
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| Yokem in Pittsfield; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. McCartney was a 1944 graduate of Pittsfield |
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| High School; he farmed with his father after high school in the |
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| rural Summer Hill area known as Black Oak; he was also a self |
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| employed real estate broker in Pike County; and
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| WHEREAS, Frank McCartney was a member of St. Mary's |
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| Catholic Church, the Wednesday Night Steak Club, and Country |
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| Couples and Pike Promenaders; he was an avid sportsman who |
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| loved to hunt quail, bowler, and baseball player with the |
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| Griggsville Nighthawks; and he was an avid St. Louis Cardinals |
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| fan; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Frank McCartney will be deeply felt |
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| by those who knew and loved him, especially his wife, Mildred; |
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| his daughters, Mary Kay Hayden and her husband, John, and |
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| Cecelia Marie Nevius and her husband, Michael; his sons, |
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| Michael Dennis McCartney and his wife, Diana, Daniel Patrick |
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| McCartney and his wife, Jera, Thomas William McCartney and his |
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| wife, Marlys, and Richard Wayne McCartney and his wife, Rhonda; |
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| his thirteen grandchildren; his thirteen great-grandchildren; |
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| his sisters, Mary Loretta McCartney and Agnes Miriam Simms and |
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| her husband, Roger; his brothers, William H. McCartney and his |
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| wife, Mary, and Daniel O. McCartney and his wife, Phylliss; his |
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| great-granddaughter, Taylor McCartney; and his sister, Carrie |
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| M. Simmons; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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| his family and friends, the passing of Frank McCartney Jr.; and |
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| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to the family of Frank McCartney Jr. as a symbol of |
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| our sympathy.
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