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A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in loving memory and honor of Burl St. Clair.
With deepest respect and admiration, we pay homage and tribute to Burl St. Clair, a native son, and we pause in silent reverence for his soul.
WHEREAS, Burl St. Clair was born on April 9, 1916, a native of Grayson County, Kentucky, and he traversed these earthly bounds on February 15, 2000; and
WHEREAS, Burl St. Clair was the loving son of the late Adli and Alta Smith St. Clair; he was the devoted husband of the late Elaine St. Clair, and of the late Verbal St. Clair; he was the loving father of a son and daughter-in-law, Robert (Bob) and Diane St. Clair of Falls of Rough; and a daughter, Betty Jean St. Clair of California; and he was the proud grandfather of three grandchildren and their spouses, Tracy and Tim Carpenter, Sheila and Tony Young, and Erica and Sherry St. Clair; and three great-grandchildren, Lucas Young, Jacob Carpenter, and Aaron Carpenter; and he was the caring brother of a sister, Kathleen Marshall, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a brother, James St. Clair, of Hardinsburg; and
WHEREAS, Burl St. Clair will be remembered as an active and involved citizen, and an esteemed member of the Grayson County community where he was revered as Grayson County's "local historian"; he was a charter member and past president of the Grayson County Historical Society, that, in 1998, presented him with a plaque for his contribution in compiling over 200 family histories and sketches of Grayson County, and for his restoration of the Jack Thomas House in Leitchfield, and the Buchanan cabin (an ancestral home of Mr. St. Clair) that he hauled log-by-log in his pickup truck for reassembling in Leitchfield; and
WHEREAS, Burl St. Clair graduated from the University of Kentucky with an agricultural degree; he taught agriculture for thirty years at the Old Caneyville High School in Grayson County; he was a charter member and served as past president of the Kentucky Farm Bureau, and he served on the Board of Directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation; he was a former national director of the Southern States Cooperative, a position that afforded him the opportunity of touring 16 foreign countries to detect whether the people were actually receiving essential foreign aid; he served on the board of directors of the Bank of Caneyville for many years, and he was a member of the Clarkson Church of Christ; and
WHEREAS, the passing of Burl St. Clair has left a void that will be difficult to fill, and he is mourned across the length and breadth of the Commonwealth;
WHEREAS,
NOW, THEREFORE,
Be it resolved by the Senate of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
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Section 1. This honorable body does hereby express its utter sense of bereavement and loss upon the passing of Burl St. Clair, a native son, and extends to his family and many friends its most profound and deepest sympathy.
Section 2. When the Senate adjourns this day, it does so in loving memory and honor of Burl St. Clair.
Section 3. The Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to transmit a copy of this Resolution to Mr. Robert St. Clair, 13899 Falls of Rough Road, Falls of Rough, Kentucky 40119.
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