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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Robert Lewis Stovall of Chicago, who
4 passed away on August 2, 2009; and
 
5     WHEREAS, He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 29,
6 1932, and grew up in Stovall, Mississippi; he graduated from
7 Lawrenceville School in 1951, and received his B.A. in American
8 Studies from Vale College in 1955; and
 
9     WHEREAS, He had a successful career in real estate in
10 Dallas and Chicago; and
 
11     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his brothers, William
12 Howard Stovall, III and Matthew Carter Stovall; and
 
13     WHEREAS, Robert Lewis Stovall is survived by his sister,
14 Marie Stovall Webster and her husband, William A. Webster, Jr.;
15 his sister-in-law, Nancy Gilmore Stovall, wife of his brother
16 Carter; his daughter, Marcy Tench Stovall and her husband, Jim
17 Farnam, and their children, Zachary and Elsa Rose; his
18 daughter, Gavin Stovall Mullen and her husband, Michael M.
19 Mullen, and their children, Anne, Jack, Claire, and Matt; his
20 daughter, Louise Stovall Holden and her husband, Mark V.
21 Holden, and their children, Molly, Clay, Kate, and Michael; his

 

 

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1 daughter, Elizabeth Carter Stovall; his former wives, Diana
2 Tench Stovall and Verna Callahan Stovall; his companion, Nancy
3 Harris; and his many friends, buddies, and fishing mates;
4 therefore, be it
 
5     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
6 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
7 his family and friends, the passing of Robert Stovall; and be
8 it further
 
9     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
10 presented to the family of Robert Stovall as a symbol of our
11 sincere sympathy.