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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois were deeply saddened to learn of the death of
4 Olie L. Musgrave of Marion on April 6, 2005; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Mr. Musgrave was born February 15, 1934, in
6 Berryville, just outside of Jonesboro, the son of Willis Ervil
7 and Trula Ozell (Edmonds) Musgrave; he was married to Betty
8 June McNail at Coal Bank Springs Baptist Church, near Crab
9 Orchard, on September 1, 1956; and
 
10     WHEREAS, He graduated from Anna-Jonesboro High School and
11 Draughon's Business College in Paducah, Kentucky; he started
12 his professional career with Household Finance before joining
13 the Army in 1956; he worked for Household Finance again in
14 Indianapolis after his discharge in 1958; and
 
15     WHEREAS, He and his wife returned to Southern Illinois in
16 1960 when he took a job in the installment loan department of
17 the Bank of Marion, where he rose to the position of bank
18 president in the 1970s; he served as executive vice-president
19 of Peoples Bank in Marion when the 1982 tornado hit and dropped
20 a car upside down on his desk; during the rebuilding, he
21 oversaw that bank holding company's operations in Christopher
22 at the Rend Lake Bank; in 1983, First Bank and Trust Co. of
23 Mount Vernon hired him as their new president and CEO, where he
24 stayed for just over a decade until Mercantile Bank bought the
25 institution; he then worked briefly as president of Heartland
26 Savings and Loan in Herrin before deciding that Southern
27 Illinois needed a new bank; in 1994, he began organizing the
28 South Pointe Bank, which opened its doors in the spring of
29 1995, and has since grown to seven locations in five
30 communities in Southern Illinois, plus a loan origination
31 office in Paducah, Kentucky, where the bank holding company has
32 just purchased land for a new bank; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, He was a longtime member of Second Baptist Church
2 in Marion, where he served in various capacities, but
3 particularly as a Sunday school teacher over the years; and
 
4     WHEREAS, Active in community affairs in the various places
5 where he worked and lived, he was honored as a "Paul Harris
6 Fellow" while he was a member of the Rotary Club of Mount
7 Vernon; since the 1970s, he provided leadership to community
8 organizations, including the Chambers of Commerce and Rotary
9 Clubs of Marion and Mount Vernon, Southern Illinois
10 Incorporated, the Marion Civic Center Foundation, which he
11 helped found, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Illinois Bankers
12 Association, and the Jackson County Business Development Corp;
13 while a resident of Mount Vernon, he was elected twice as a
14 member of the board of trustees for Rend Lake College; and
 
15     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents, a
16 stillborn brother, and one niece, Shirley Gibbs; and
 
17     WHEREAS, The passing of Olie L. Musgrave is felt by all who
18 knew and loved him, especially his wife of 48 years, Betty; his
19 son, Jon Musgrave; his two sisters and brothers-in-law, Lorene
20 and Dr. Jean Jones and Wilma and Paul Davis; his brother and
21 sister-in-law, Ira Willis and Freda Musgrave; and his two
22 nephews and four nieces; on his wife's side, he is survived by
23 two brothers-in-law, Bob McNail (wife Sue) and Don McNail (wife
24 Mary), as well as four nieces and one nephew; he is also
25 survived by numerous great-nephews and nieces on both sides of
26 his family, plus many other relatives and friends; therefore,
27 be it
 
28     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
29 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
30 we mourn the passing of Olie L. Musgrave and extend our
31 sincerest condolences to his family, friends, and community;

 

 

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1 and be it further
 
2     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
3 presented to his family as an expression of our deepest
4 sympathy.