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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to |
| 3 | | learn of the death of
Danny Ray Day Sr. of Dixon, who passed |
| 4 | | away on September 29, 2011; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Danny Ray Day Sr. was born December 23, 1946, in |
| 6 | | Jellico, Tennessee; he was the son of Kernie and Iva |
| 7 | | (Huddleston) Day; he married Glenda Boyd on August 13, 1966, in |
| 8 | | Dixon; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, At an early age, Danny Ray Day Sr. and his family |
| 10 | | moved to Kincaid; he grew up helping his father work the farm; |
| 11 | | in 1964, he moved to Dixon and began working at Dixon |
| 12 | | Publishing (later Dixonweb), where he remained until his |
| 13 | | retirement in 1983; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, In 1966, Danny Ray Day Sr. enlisted in the United |
| 15 | | States Army; he served as a helicopter mechanic with the 67th |
| 16 | | Aviation Company, VII Corps and was stationed at Stuttgart, |
| 17 | | Germany and White Sands, New Mexico; and
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| 18 | | WHEREAS, Danny Ray Day Sr. had a great interest in cars, |
| 19 | | especially hot rods; he was the owner of a 1951 Chevy, a 1951 |
| 20 | | Ford convertible, and a 1956 Ford two-door hard top; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Danny Ray Day Sr. attended Harvest Time Bible |
| 2 | | Church and Lincoln Avenue Church of God; he was also a member |
| 3 | | of the Ben Caudill Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, |
| 4 | | the Sauk Valley Civil War Round Table, the Rock River Valley |
| 5 | | Civil War Round Table, and the Dixon Golden Kiwanis Club; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, Danny Ray Day Sr. was preceded in death by his |
| 7 | | parents; his sisters, Mahala Dunbar and Millie White; and his |
| 8 | | brother, Bobby Day; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, Danny Ray Day Sr. is survived by his wife, Glenda |
| 10 | | Day; his sons, Danny (Lenae) Day Jr., Darin (Debbie) Day, and |
| 11 | | Dion (Tasha) Day; his daughter, Roxanne (Ken) Owens; his |
| 12 | | grandchildren, Whitney, Shadow, Kamerin, Kaylee, Dariyn, |
| 13 | | Drevin, Daehly, Dreyden, Raven, and Harvest; his |
| 14 | | great-granddaughter, Taylor; his sisters, Kathleen Siler, |
| 15 | | Imogene Dowdell, and Lucille Sullivan; and his brother, Jack |
| 16 | | Day; therefore, be it
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| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL |
| 18 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
| 19 | | his family and friends, the passing of Danny Ray Day Sr.; and |
| 20 | | be it further
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| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 22 | | presented to the family of Danny Ray Day Sr. as an expression |