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SENATE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
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learn of the death of Charles B. Jackson Sr., who passed away 
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on May 4, 2007; and

 
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    WHEREAS,
He was born November 16, 1921, in the 
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Administration Building of the Western Military Academy in 
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Alton to Ralph Leroy and Mary (Borden) Jackson; and

 
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    WHEREAS, He and the former Jane Figgatt were married on 
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June 14, 1947; Charles Jackson Sr.  graduated from the former 
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Western Military Academy in 1939 and continued his education at 
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Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia; and

 
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    WHEREAS, His college years were interrupted when he 
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enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps during World War 
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II and served as an officer in North Africa, Italy, and 
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Germany; after the war, he  was a decorated veteran who returned 
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to Washington and Lee and graduated in 1947; he was a history 
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teacher, coach, and administrator at Western Military Academy 
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until the school closed in 1971; he taught at Civic Memorial 
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High School from 1971 until 1988, when he retired; and

 
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    WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents and three 
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brothers, Albert, Ralph, and William Jackson; and

 
 


 






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    WHEREAS, The passing of Charles Jackson Sr. will be deeply 
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felt by all who knew and loved him, especially his wife, Jane; 
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his sons and their families, C.B. and Ellen Jackson and their 
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children, Matthew, Jane, David and Thomas, and Randy and Lynne 
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Jackson and their sons, Luke and Tyler; 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 Charles B. Jackson Sr.; 
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and 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 Charles B. Jackson Sr. as a symbol 
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of our sympathy.