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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Howard J. Adelmann of Lockport, who
4 passed away on October 22, 2008; and
 
5     WHEREAS, When he was an infant, his great-grandmother
6 noticed a resemblance to silent screen comedian John Bunny, and
7 the nickname "Bunny" remained for the rest of his life; a
8 lifelong resident of Lockport, he served in the Army Air Corps
9 in the Pacific during World War II; he founded the Lockport Oil
10 Company in 1958 and sold the business in 1977; and he was one
11 of the founders of the Bank of Lockport (now Harris Bank) and
12 served as chairman of the board for many years; and
 
13     WHEREAS, When Lockport officials announced plans to tear
14 down the decrepit Central School, Howard Adelmann became
15 chairman of the committee to preserve the building, which now
16 houses City Hall, the Lockport Township offices, and park
17 district facility; he was also instrumental in restoring the
18 Old Congregational Church as the Gladys Fox Museum; and
 
19     WHEREAS, A longtime trustee of the Lockport Township fire
20 and park districts for many years, he was credited as a driving
21 force behind the Prairie Bluff Golf Course and Dellwood West
22 Park; Farrell Road Park was renamed in his honor upon his

 

 

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1 retirement from the park district in 1999; that same year, he
2 purchased the Adelmann Block Building in downtown Lockport,
3 which had been built by his grandfather 100 years earlier, and
4 restored the structure for residential and commercial uses; and
 
5     WHEREAS, He was a charter member of the Lockport Veterans
6 of Foreign Wars post and served as commander from 1984 to 1986;
7 and
 
8     WHEREAS, He owned a Model-T Ford as a member of the Antique
9 Automobile Association and began hooking rugs as a hobby later
10 in life; he also donated an antique hack from his family's
11 livery business to the Will County Historical Society;
12 therefore, be it
 
13     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
14 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
15 his family and friends, the passing of Howard Adelmann; and be
16 it further
 
17     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
18 presented to the family of Howard Adelmann as a symbol of our
19 sincere sympathy.