Full Text of SR0346 96th General Assembly
SR0346 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Lois Mila Killam of Jacksonville, who | 4 |
| passed away on June 27, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Lois Killam was born on May 14, 1921 on the Joy | 6 |
| farm near Loami; her parents were William B. and Mettye Hancock | 7 |
| Handy; she married Edward L. Killam Jr. in 1943; and
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| WHEREAS, Lois Killam attended White Pilgrim School, a one | 9 |
| room country school near Waverly; she graduated from Waverly | 10 |
| High School in 1939 and from Hardin-Brown Business College in | 11 |
| Jacksonville in 1941; and
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| WHEREAS, Lois Killam was employed as an executive secretary | 13 |
| at New Method Book Bindery and NESCO; she was later employed as | 14 |
| a receptionist at radio station WLDS, where she sometimes | 15 |
| played guitar and sang with "The Prairie Pioneers", a country | 16 |
| and western band; she was also employed at Jacksonville State | 17 |
| Hospital as a librarian until her retirement in 1981; and
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| WHEREAS, After her retirement from Jacksonville State | 19 |
| Hospital, Lois Killam and her husband moved to Palm Springs, | 20 |
| California, where they became active community volunteers and | 21 |
| won the Volunteer of the Year Award in 1990; she became close |
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| friends with Sonny Bono while working on his campaign to become | 2 |
| mayor of Palm Springs; she later became Rep. Bono's district | 3 |
| office receptionist when he was elected to serve in Congress; | 4 |
| after her retirement in 2000, she was honored by having | 5 |
| September 2, 2000 designated as "Lois Killam Day" in Palm | 6 |
| Springs and the surrounding communities; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, After her retirement from Rep. Bono's staff, Lois | 8 |
| Killam returned to Jacksonville, where she continued to enjoy | 9 |
| her lifetime of reading, political news, gardening, cooking, | 10 |
| friends, and family; and
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| WHEREAS, Lois Killam was preceded in death by her husband, | 12 |
| Edward L. Killam Jr.; her five siblings; and her daughter, | 13 |
| Suellen Killam Casson; and
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| WHEREAS, Lois Killam is survived by her son, Edward L. | 15 |
| Killam III; her grandsons, Tom Casson and Tim Casson; her four | 16 |
| great-grandchildren; and her many nieces and nephews; | 17 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 19 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 20 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Lois Mila Killam; and be | 21 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of Lois Killam as an expression of our | 3 |
| sympathy.
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