Full Text of HR0569 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, At a particularly critical and sensitive time, | 3 | | James Carlson played an important role in the government | 4 | | oversight and regulation of the Illinois cemetery industry, | 5 | | having admirably served as Assistant Deputy Director of | 6 | | Cemetery Oversight for the State of Illinois and having been | 7 | | formally recognized as an "upstanding leader" by Comptroller | 8 | | Judy Barr Topinka for his "dedication and service to the people | 9 | | of Illinois and the cemetery industry"; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, James Carlson was born in Evergreen Park on June | 11 | | 1, 1946; he graduated from Bradley University in Peoria with a | 12 | | degree in economics in 1968; he raised two children in | 13 | | Illinois, Mathew (born in 1974) and Tracey (born in 1975), and | 14 | | married his soul mate, Kathy Carlson, in 1989; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, James Carlson served as a professor of economics | 16 | | at Moraine Valley College; he also served in many capacities | 17 | | within the Illinois cemetery industry, including Executive | 18 | | Vice President of the Chicago Cemetery Corporation, Regional | 19 | | Vice President of the Loewen Group, President of the Cemeteries | 20 | | Association of Greater Chicago, and President of the Illinois | 21 | | Cemetery and Funeral Home Association; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Prior to becoming a cemetery regulator, James |
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| 1 | | Carlson served as a cemetery consultant, advising Illinois | 2 | | cemeteries on compliance with Illinois laws and operational | 3 | | integrity; he also served as an appointed receiver of Illinois | 4 | | cemeteries under the administrations of Comptrollers Judy Baar | 5 | | Topinka and Daniel Hynes; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, As a recognized cemetery industry leader of great | 7 | | knowledge and integrity, James Carlson was asked to serve the | 8 | | State of Illinois by helping develop and administer the new | 9 | | Cemetery Oversight Act, which he did with honor and | 10 | | accomplishment prior to his retirement in 2013 due to health | 11 | | reasons; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 13 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 14 | | we express our sincere appreciation to James Carlson for his | 15 | | dedicated and effective public service; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to James Carlson, his wife, Kathy, and his children, | 18 | | Mathew and Tracey.
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