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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Robert Irvine "Bob" Grubbs of Peoria, who
4 passed away on October 16, 2009; and
 
5     WHEREAS, He was born on April 12, 1922, in Richmond,
6 Kentucky, to Abram Grubbs and Verlean Irvine; he was married to
7 his high school sweetheart, Mary Frances Chenault, on July 15,
8 1943, in their hometown of Richmond, by the Reverend Titus
9 Bennett; and
 
10     WHEREAS, He graduated in 1942 from Richmond High School in
11 Kentucky, where that year he was a member of the state
12 championship basketball team; he went on to join the United
13 States Army, where he became a corporal with the 4208th Quarter
14 Master Service Company serving in the Asiatic, Pacific, and
15 Southwest Corridors during World War II; and
 
16     WHEREAS, He was a carpenter by trade and was a member of
17 the Richmond carpenters union; he also worked for the Bluegrass
18 Ordinance; he later settled his family into the Peoria
19 community where he worked for Keystone Steel and Wire as a
20 steel inspector, retiring in 1984 after 25 years of service; he
21 was a community activist, civil servant, and notary for over 50
22 years and was also a life member of the NAACP; Bob and Mary

 

 

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1 Grubbs were inductees into the African-American Hall of Fame
2 Museum in 1992 for Community Service; and
 
3     WHEREAS, He accepted Christ at age 11 at the First Baptist
4 Church in Richmond; he was a former member, trustee, and
5 treasurer, when the mortgage was paid off, at New Morning Star
6 Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of the late Rev.
7 Dr. Calvin C. Hightower; he was a faithful member for 16 years
8 of Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church, where he was a
9 charter member, trustee, and treasurer; and
 
10     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife; his parents;
11 one brother and one sister; and
 
12     WHEREAS, He leaves to cherish his precious memories his
13 loving children, Bobby J. (Julia) Grubbs, Cecil I. Grubbs, and
14 Marilyn L. Henning; his grandchildren; his 18
15 great-grandchildren; his five great-great-grandchildren; his
16 seven god-children; his sisters-in-law, Eva (Charles) Holk and
17 Phyllis Chenault; his cousins, Edna Finley, Joseph Irvine, and
18 Hazel Hankerson; his Prince of Peace Church family; and a host
19 of other relatives and friends who dearly loved him; therefore,
20 be it
 
21     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
22 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with

 

 

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1 his family and friends, the passing of Robert Grubbs; and be it
2 further
 
3     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
4 presented to the family of Robert Grubbs as a symbol of our
5 sincere sympathy.