Bill Text: IL SR0340 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Edward James Collins Jr.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-04-12 - Resolution Adopted [SR0340 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SR0340-Introduced.html
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
| ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
| 3 | learn of the death of Edward James "Ed" Collins Jr., who passed | ||||||
| 4 | away on February 20, 2019; and
| ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, Ed Collins was born in Lawrence,
Massachusetts to | ||||||
| 6 | Mary Elizabeth Rogers and Edward James Collins Sr. on March 17, | ||||||
| 7 | 1933; he graduated from Brighton High School in
Boston in 1952 | ||||||
| 8 | and served for three years in the U.S. Army Security Agency, | ||||||
| 9 | where he was stationed in South Korea for over a year and | ||||||
| 10 | involved in top secret classified work; and
| ||||||
| 11 | WHEREAS, Ed Collins returned from military service and | ||||||
| 12 | enrolled at Boston University; he transferred to the University | ||||||
| 13 | of
California, Berkeley and decided to become a journalist; he | ||||||
| 14 | graduated in 1955 and took a position with the Brawley Daily | ||||||
| 15 | News, a small community newspaper in Southern
California; and
| ||||||
| 16 | WHEREAS, Ed Collins accepted a position as Executive | ||||||
| 17 | Director of the
Oakland Junior Chamber of Commerce and then a | ||||||
| 18 | public relations job with the California Medical
Association; | ||||||
| 19 | and
| ||||||
| 20 | WHEREAS, Ed Collins married Dorothy Jane McCann and they | ||||||
| 21 | lived in Kensington, California for the next 13 years; in 1977, | ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | he accepted a position with the American Association of Medical | ||||||
| 2 | Society Executives and his family settled in Deerfield; and
| ||||||
| 3 | WHEREAS, Ed Collins decided to
return to journalism and | ||||||
| 4 | obtained a master's degree in journalism from Columbia College | ||||||
| 5 | in Chicago in 2000; he began to work for the Lake County | ||||||
| 6 | News-Sun newspaper as a general assignment
reporter for the | ||||||
| 7 | next 14 years; he retired in December 2014; and
| ||||||
| 8 | WHEREAS, Ed Collins is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and | ||||||
| 9 | his son, Edward James
Collins III; therefore, be it
| ||||||
| 10 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | ||||||
| 11 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
| 12 | Edward James "Ed" Collins Jr. and extend our sincere | ||||||
| 13 | condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew and loved | ||||||
| 14 | him; and be it further
| ||||||
| 15 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 16 | presented to the family of Ed Collins as an expression of our | ||||||
| 17 | deepest sympathy.
| ||||||
