Bill Text: IL HR0703 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Marian Elizabeth Saathoff Pierzynski of Aurora on her 100th birthday.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-01-30 - Resolution Adopted [HR0703 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0703-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Marian Elizabeth Saathoff | ||||||
4 | Pierzynski of Aurora on the occasion of her 100th birthday; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Marian Pierzynski was born in Mount Olive during a | ||||||
6 | snow storm on December 11, 1917; she was the seventh child of | ||||||
7 | Sarah Fremgen and John Saathoff, a coal mine examiner; the coal | ||||||
8 | from
the mine where her father worked is in the coal mine | ||||||
9 | exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; she | ||||||
10 | had three brothers and six sisters; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Marian Pierzynski graduated from Mount Olive High | ||||||
12 | School and worked as a waitress at the historic
Ariston Cafe, | ||||||
13 | located in the town of Litchfield on Route 66; when she was in | ||||||
14 | her 20s, she relocated to Chicago and lived with one of her | ||||||
15 | sisters and secured a
clerical position at Florsheim Shoes | ||||||
16 | downtown on Adams and Canal; and
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17 | WHEREAS, In the 40s, Marian Pierzynski met her husband, | ||||||
18 | Richard Pierzynski, a World War II veteran, at a square dancing | ||||||
19 | club; they were married on July 28, 1952 and lived on the south | ||||||
20 | side of Chicago in the Back of the Yards
neighborhood; she had | ||||||
21 | two children, James Pierzynski and Susan Pierzynski Andrews; | ||||||
22 | and
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1 | WHEREAS, When her children were school age, Marian | ||||||
2 | Pierzynski went back to work at Westinghouse Electric in | ||||||
3 | Chicago; upon her
retirement, she relocated to Wheaton with her | ||||||
4 | daughter; in the late 90s, she relocated to Aurora to live with | ||||||
5 | her daughter; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Marian Pierzynski was born while the United States | ||||||
7 | was fighting in World War I; she has lived through the Roaring | ||||||
8 | Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil | ||||||
9 | Rights Era; she witnessed man's landing on the moon and | ||||||
10 | countless other historical events; therefore, be it
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11 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
12 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
13 | congratulate Marian Elizabeth Saathoff Pierzynski on her 100th | ||||||
14 | birthday, and we wish her many more wonderful years; and be it | ||||||
15 | further
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16 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
17 | presented to Marian Pierzynski as a symbol of our | ||||||
18 | congratulations.
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