Bill Text: IL SR0173 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Eloy Cueto of Troy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-03-26 - Resolution Adopted [SR0173 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SR0173-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
3 | learn of the death of Eloy Cueto of Troy, who passed away on | ||||||
4 | March 19, 2009; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Eloy Menendez Cueto was born on July 18, 1923, in | ||||||
6 | East St. Louis; he went to Hawthorne grade school and Lansdowne | ||||||
7 | Junior High School in East St. Louis; he was the president and | ||||||
8 | valedictorian of the East St. Louis Senior High School class of | ||||||
9 | 1941; Eloy was the son of Amelio and Alicia Cueto, both of whom | ||||||
10 | had been born in Asturias, Spain; and
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11 | WHEREAS, After high school, Eloy went first to the Rolla | ||||||
12 | School of Mines and Metallurgy, then into the United States | ||||||
13 | Navy in World War II; he was an officer aboard the Rinehart, a | ||||||
14 | destroyer escort, serving in the South Pacific; after World War | ||||||
15 | II, he finished his degree in Metallurgy at Rolla; and
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16 | WHEREAS, He worked first at American Zinc Works in Fairmont | ||||||
17 | City and later he worked for 32 years at Granite City Steel; | ||||||
18 | and
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19 | WHEREAS, Throughout his life Eloy was an athlete; he played | ||||||
20 | baseball in the Fountain of Youth League in East St. Louis, and | ||||||
21 | he was an avid golfer, playing until the onset of illness; Eloy |
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1 | was proud of his service to his country in time of war, proud | ||||||
2 | of being a second generation Spaniard, proud of being from East | ||||||
3 | St. Louis, but most of all, he was proud of his large and | ||||||
4 | loving family; and
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5 | WHEREAS, He married Louise Peterson on May 1, 1948 and she | ||||||
6 | preceded him in death; he was also preceded in death by his | ||||||
7 | parents, Amelio and Alicia, nee Menendez, Cueto; his brother, | ||||||
8 | Julius "Hank;" and his son-in-law, David Hartlein; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Eloy Cueto is survived by his five children, Amiel | ||||||
10 | (Elaine), Lloyd (Patti), Maria, Christopher (Rebecca), and | ||||||
11 | David; his grandchildren, Kara (Roger) Osthoff, S. Sgt. Gregory | ||||||
12 | (Chasity) Cueto, Lloyd M. Cueto, Johanna Hartlein, Rebecca | ||||||
13 | (Adam) Severit, Dane (Monica) Hartlein, Emma Cueto, and Sarah | ||||||
14 | Cueto; his great-grandchildren, David and Cecilia Osthoff, | ||||||
15 | Nathaniel and Allysia Severit, Elena Toth, and Paul Amiel | ||||||
16 | Cueto; and his sister, Inez Bratton; therefore, be it
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17 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | ||||||
18 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
19 | his family and friends, the passing of Eloy Cueto; and be it | ||||||
20 | further
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21 | RESOLVED, That That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
22 | presented to the family of Eloy Cueto as a symbol of our |
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1 | sincere sympathy.
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