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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 Bill Knight of Evanston, who passed away | ||||||
| 4 | on September 25, 2016; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Bill Knight was born in Moberly, Missouri to | ||||||
| 6 | Albert Avery and Lona Mae (Capps)
Knight on April 15, 1928; he | ||||||
| 7 | graduated from Carthage High School in 1946 and attended | ||||||
| 8 | Western Illinois State Teachers College; he married Betty Lou | ||||||
| 9 | Stark on February 4, 1949; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Bill Knight had a 40-year career at Western | ||||||
| 11 | Illinois Electric Co-op, where he was a
groundman, lineman, | ||||||
| 12 | engineer, and supervisor; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, In retirement, Bill Knight taught himself piano, | ||||||
| 14 | woodworking,
furniture refinishing, and clock repair; he was | ||||||
| 15 | interested in genealogy and traced his family to Robert De Dene | ||||||
| 16 | in
England before the time of William the Conqueror; he enjoyed | ||||||
| 17 | following the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Bears, playing | ||||||
| 18 | bridge or his ukulele, listening to jazz
(especially | ||||||
| 19 | Dixieland), mowing and clearing snow on his Kubota, having | ||||||
| 20 | "coffee with the boys" at Ayerco
in Carthage, and golfing, | ||||||
| 21 | making six holes-in-one over a 10-year span; and | ||||||
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Bill Knight was a volunteer with the SHARE food | ||||||
| 2 | program in Hancock County; he was a former Elder with the
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| 3 | Elvaston Community Church; he valued his faith and loved | ||||||
| 4 | reading, especially humorists, history,
and his favorite book, | ||||||
| 5 | "To Kill a Mockingbird", which he read dozens of times; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Bill Knight was preceded in death by his wife, | ||||||
| 7 | Betty; his parents; and a great group of animals, from Duke and | ||||||
| 8 | Bucky to
Benji and Em, a one-eyed cat he rescued from a ditch; | ||||||
| 9 | and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Bill Knight is survived by his sons, Bill (Terry) | ||||||
| 11 | Knight Jr., and Tracy (Sharon) Knight;
his grandson, Russell | ||||||
| 12 | Baker; his sister, Bonnie Graves; several nieces and
nephews; | ||||||
| 13 | his friend, Tina Harl; and his rescue dog, Molly, "the nicest | ||||||
| 14 | girl in town"; therefore, be it
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| 15 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 16 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
| 17 | Bill Knight, and extend our sincere condolences to his family, | ||||||
| 18 | friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 20 | presented to the family of Bill Knight as an expression of our | ||||||
| 21 | deepest sympathy.
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