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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2013

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S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N

EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF

WARREN M. MCNEILLY

     

     

     Introduced By: Senators Algiere, Paiva Weed, Bates, Hodgson, and Ottiano

     Date Introduced: February 28, 2013

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

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     WHEREAS, It is with great sadness that this Senate has learned of the passing of Warren

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M. McNeilly, the devoted husband of Barbara McNeilly, and who was predeceased by his wife of

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fifty-eight years, the late Christiane McNeilly; and

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     WHEREAS, Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Warren McNeilly was a son of the late

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Scott and Evangeline McNeilly, and brother of the late Katherine Johansen, Ralph, and George

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McNeilly; and

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     WHEREAS, Mr. McNeilly was the loving father of nine children, Martha Foutch, Joan

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Nesbitt, Deborah Silvestri, Senate Staffer Patricia McNeilly, Scott McNeilly, Warren McNeilly,

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Jr., Mark McNeilly, Jonathan McNeilly, and Kirk McNeilly, and three step children, Dr. Amy

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Robinson, Thomas Robinson, and William Robinson, USN. He was also the beloved grandfather

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of fifteen grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren; and

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     WHEREAS, A conscientious and hard-working man, Warren McNeilly originally retired

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in 1974 after thirty-two years at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station, where he was employed as

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a Supervisor of overhaul and repair. He was subsequently employed for thirty-nine years as an

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independent contractor and consultant working for various engineering firms. He retired from his

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second career in January of 2013 on his 92nd birthday; and

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     WHEREAS, Warren McNeilly spent much of his life providing for and taking care of his

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family, and in return, he was blessed with their love and devotion. He enriched the lives of all

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who knew him and will be dearly missed; now, therefore be it

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     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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hereby expresses our deepest sympathies to Mrs. Barbara McNeilly and the entire McNeilly

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Family on the passing of their beloved and venerable patriarch, Warren M. McNeilly; and be it

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further

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     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

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transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Barbara McNeilly and Family, and Patricia

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McNeilly.

     

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