Bill Text: IL HR1044 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Mary Lou Walker of Carbondale.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)
Status: (Passed) 2010-03-23 - Resolution Adopted [HR1044 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HR1044-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Mary Lou | ||||||
| 4 | Walker of Carbondale, who passed away on March 17, 2010; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Mary Lou Walker was born on September 4, 1930, in | ||||||
| 6 | Hurst; she was the daughter of Eugene "Shine" Shafer and Erma | ||||||
| 7 | "Keyes" Shafer; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Mary Lou Walker graduated from Hurst-Bush High | ||||||
| 9 | School in 1948; in 1965, she became the first woman to graduate | ||||||
| 10 | from Southern Illinois University with a degree in mortuary | ||||||
| 11 | science; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Mary Lou Walker married James F. Walker in 1962; | ||||||
| 13 | the couple shared 35 years of marriage until his passing on | ||||||
| 14 | June 19, 1997; Mary continued to operate the couple's funeral | ||||||
| 15 | home business until her passing; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Mary Lou Walker took great pride in operating the | ||||||
| 17 | funeral business with her husband and her son, Regge, and | ||||||
| 18 | considered helping families in time of grief to be her life's | ||||||
| 19 | passion; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, Mary Lou Walker was a member of the Illinois | ||||||
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| 1 | Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral Directors | ||||||
| 2 | Association, CANA, the Egyptian Funeral Directors Association, | ||||||
| 3 | the Ladies Auxiliary of the Elks Club of Carbondale, the Ladies | ||||||
| 4 | Auxiliary of the Eagles Club of Carbondale, and the Hurst Lions | ||||||
| 5 | Club Auxiliary and Rotary; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Mary Lou Walker was preceded in death by her | ||||||
| 7 | husband and her son, James Tracy Walker; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Mary Lou Walker will be sadly missed by her son, | ||||||
| 9 | Regge Walker; her daughter, Illinois State Representative Jil | ||||||
| 10 | Tracy and her husband, Jim; her brothers, Larry Shafer and Tom | ||||||
| 11 | Shafer (Sandra); her grandchildren, Rob Tracy, Ben Tracy, Mark | ||||||
| 12 | (Kelsy) Tracy, and Kailey Walker; and her close friends, Elyse | ||||||
| 13 | Crowell, Mono Robinson, and Suzanne Immen; therefore, be it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 15 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 16 | mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of Mary | ||||||
| 17 | Lou Walker; and be it further
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| 18 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 19 | presented to the family of Mary Lou Walker as an expression of | ||||||
| 20 | our sincere sympathy.
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