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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of K.E. "Blackie" Jackson of Roodhouse, who
4 passed away on October 20, 2008; and
 
5     WHEREAS, He was born January 27, 1925, in Roodhouse; he
6 graduated in 1943 from Roodhouse High School, where he was
7 all-conference in football, basketball, and track; and he
8 enlisted in the United States Navy in 1943; and
 
9     WHEREAS, In 1946 he joined the American Legion and was a
10 member for 62 years; he was a former member of the Rotary Club
11 of Roodhouse and served as Rotary president from July 1961 to
12 July 1962; he was a former member of the Roodhouse Lodge of the
13 Knights of Pythias; he played on men's amateur softball teams
14 for more than 30 years and participated in donkey basketball
15 and donkey field hockey events to raise money for various
16 community and charitable organizations; and
 
17     WHEREAS, He served on the Board of Education of the
18 Roodhouse Public Schools System and was president of that board
19 when Roodhouse, White Hall, Hillview, and Patterson schools
20 consolidated into the current North Greene School District in
21 1962; he owned and operated his own plumbing business for 55
22 years and was a licensed master plumber, licensed plumbing

 

 

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1 contractor, and a licensed refrigeration engineer; in 1974, he
2 was appointed by Governor Daniel Walker to an advisory
3 committee that rewrote the Illinois State Plumbing Code; in
4 1952, he became a Democratic Party precinct committeeman and
5 member of the Greene County Democratic central committee; in
6 1955, he was elected central committee chairman and served in
7 that capacity until he retired from the central committee in
8 1974; and
 
9     WHEREAS, He was a firefighter with the Roodhouse Volunteer
10 Fire Department for 55 years, serving the last 39 of those
11 years as fire chief; and he was a member of First Baptist
12 Church of Roodhouse; and
 
13     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and
14 Avenel Jackson; his sister, Eileen Smock; and his son, Lloyd
15 Dean Jackson; and
 
16     WHEREAS, K.E. "Blackie" Jackson is survived by his wife,
17 Betty; his sister, Louise Proffer; his two daughters, Patricia
18 Lendennie and Donna Feltner; his son, Timothy Jackson; his
19 eight grandchildren, United States Army Specialist Michael
20 Wendell, Kyle Wendell, Benjamin Feltner, Matthew Feltner,
21 Brittany Jackson, Jessica Jackson, Chance Stilley, and Kenneth
22 Jackson; and his ten great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
2 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
3 his family and friends, the passing of K.E. "Blackie" Jackson;
4 and be it further
 
5     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
6 presented to the family of K.E. "Blackie" Jackson as a symbol
7 of our sincere sympathy.