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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Judge Joseph James Barr of Wood River,
4 who passed away on November 10, 2007; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Judge Joseph James Barr was born October 31, 1919,
6 in Alton to Joseph E. Barr and Mary (Clasby) Barr; on September
7 25, 1945, he and the former Mary Louise Dahm were married at
8 St. Ann's Church in Normandy, Missouri ; and
 
9     WHEREAS, Joseph Barr was a lifetime resident of Wood River
10 and a lifetime member of St. Bernard's Catholic Church; he
11 graduated from Marquette Catholic High School in Alton and from
12 the University of Notre Dame in undergraduate and law schools
13 in 1942; and
 
14     WHEREAS, He served with the United States Marines in World
15 War II in the Pacific Theater; he participated in island
16 landings on Tarawa (November 20, 1943) Saipan (June 15, 1944)
17 and Tinian (July 24, 1944); he was wounded in Tarawa and was
18 awarded the Navy Cross by Admiral Nimitz; he was also awarded
19 the Purple Heart; and
 
20     WHEREAS, Joseph Barr was a member of the Illinois Bar
21 Association since 1946; he was a lifetime member of the Knights

 

 

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1 of Columbus Wood River Council, the American Legion, the
2 Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled American Veterans;
3 as a young lawyer, he served as an attorney for the City of
4 Wood River, the Village of Roxana, and the Roxana Park
5 District; in 1950, he was elected Probate Judge of Madison
6 County and continued in that office until elected to the
7 Circuit Court in 1957; he retired from the Judicial Office in
8 1982, and after retirement was associated with the Holland and
9 Sweet Law Firm in Wood River; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Judge Joseph Barr is survived by his wife, Mary
11 Louise; his children, Joseph E. Barr and his wife, Jacqueline
12 Crowe, James P. Barr, Mary Elliott and her husband, Donald,
13 Patricia Fulks and her husband, Ronald, and Janet Hoelscher and
14 her husband, Stephen; his ten grandchildren; his two
15 great-grandchildren; and his sister, Marjorie Mossman Kenney;
16 he was preceded in death by his parents and four infant
17 children, Michael Louis, John Robert, Ann Marie, and Theresa
18 Ann Barr; therefore, be it
 
19     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
20 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
21 his family and friends, the passing of Judge Joseph James Barr;
22 and be it further
 
23     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be

 

 

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1 presented to the family of Judge Joseph James Barr as a symbol
2 of our sympathy.