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SR0067LRB104 08671 MST 18725 r

1SENATE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened 

3to learn of the death of Roger Loy Yarbrough of Champaign, who 

4passed away on December 27, 2024; and

5 WHEREAS, Roger Yarbrough was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma 

6to Lee Allen and Zeta Geneva Yarbrough on January 24, 1929 and 

7was reared in nearby small oil towns; in 1939, his family moved 

8to Southern Illinois, and they settled in Vandalia; he 

9graduated from Vandalia Junior High and High School, where he 

10played the French horn in the school band; he attended the 

11University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the ROTC program 

12and graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical 

13engineering in 1950; he served as a second lieutenant in the 

14U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War, where he 

15worked with heavy machinery and road construction; he married 

16Dolores Graham in 1951, and they settled in Champaign in 1962; 

17and

18 WHEREAS, Roger Yarbrough found his niche in the asphalt 

19paving industry, where he eventually worked as the Fayette 

20County road engineer; he took a job with Parro Construction as 

21their chief engineer in 1962, which he and several partners 

22purchased in April 1966 and renamed University Asphalt, which 

23became very successful with him as its president and general 

SR0067- 2 -LRB104 08671 MST 18725 r

1manager and built many of the interstates, roads, and parking 

2lots in Central Illinois; he acquired Danville Asphalt and 

3merged it with University Asphalt into the APCON Corporation; 

4he was president of APCON, University Construction, Danville 

5Construction, and its subsidiaries, which he maintained until 

6he retired in late 1997; a