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HCR 1020 Expressing the Legislature's condolences upon the...

State of South Dakota  
SEVENTY-FOURTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,  1999
 

493C0912  
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION   NO.     1020  

        Introduced by: Representatives Klaudt, Apa, Broderick, Brooks, Brown (Jarvis), Brown (Richard), Burg, Cerny, Chicoine, Clark, Crisp, Cutler, Davis, Derby, Diedrich (Larry), Diedtrich (Elmer), Duenwald, Earley, Engbrecht, Fiegen, Fischer- Clemens, Fryslie, Garnos, Hagen, Haley, Hanson, Hennies, Hunt, Jaspers, Kazmerzak, Koetzle, Konold, Kooistra, Koskan, Lintz, Lucas, McCoy, McIntyre, McNenny, Monroe, Munson (Donald), Nachtigal, Patterson, Pummel, Putnam, Roe, Sebert, Slaughter, Solum, Sutton (Daniel), Sutton (Duane), Volesky, Waltman, Weber, Wetz, Wilson, Windhorst, Wudel, and Young and Senators Drake, Albers, Benson, Bogue, Daugaard, Dennert, Dunn (Rebecca), Duxbury, Everist, Flowers, Frederick, Hainje, Ham, Hutmacher, Kleven, Kloucek, Lange, Lawler, Madden, Moore, Olson, Reedy, Rounds, Staggers, Valandra, Vitter, and Whiting  

         A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION,  Expressing the Legislature's condolences upon the occasion of the death of J.D. Kesling.
     WHEREAS,  a distinguished and original South Dakotan, J.D. Kesling, passed away on February 27th; and
     WHEREAS,  J.D. Kesling acquired his stepfather's hardware store and mortuary in 1936 and worked there while also acquiring a lumber company, another hardware store, and the plumbing and heating shop, and also owned the lumber company in Isabel. He owned these until 1965 when he moved to Mobridge and purchased the Miles Funeral Home. In Mobridge he designed and built a new Funeral Home at the West edge of Mobridge; and
     WHEREAS,  flying was his most rewarding hobby; although, he also enjoyed cooking, reading, card games (in particular double pinochle), history, politics, and visiting the more than

ten thousand people he claimed to know; and

     WHEREAS,  J.D. lived his entire life with zest, compassion, humor, and a love for his fellow man, which made him a man who is greatly missed:
     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,  by the House of Representatives of the Seventy- fourth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the Legislature hereby expresses its heartfelt condolences on the sad passing of this congenial man.