Bill Text: IL SR0197 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Bernadine Evans Stake of Urbana.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-07 - Resolution Adopted [SR0197 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SR0197-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 Bernadine Evans Stake of Urbana, who | ||||||
4 | passed away on February 23, 2019; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake was born on a farm near Lindy, | ||||||
6 | Nebraska to Burt and Ida Haug Evans on April 29, 1926; she | ||||||
7 | graduated from the University of Nebraska and also earned her | ||||||
8 | master's degree and her doctorate in education from the | ||||||
9 | University of Illinois; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake began her career as a teacher in a | ||||||
11 | one-room country school house; she then taught elementary | ||||||
12 | students in San Diego and later taught science education to | ||||||
13 | elementary teachers; she was the principal evaluator of PLATO | ||||||
14 | computer elementary mathematics education for the Educational | ||||||
15 | Testing Service; she also evaluated the National Sex Equity | ||||||
16 | Demonstration Project based in Broward County, Florida for the | ||||||
17 | National Science Foundation; and
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18 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake served on the Equal Rights | ||||||
19 | Committee of the American Educational Research Association; | ||||||
20 | she was also active in the Urbana community and served on the | ||||||
21 | Urbana City Council and the Planning Commission; she was the | ||||||
22 | Democratic precinct committee chairwoman for the 10th |
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1 | Precinct, 4th Ward for many decades; and
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2 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake was an active leader in local | ||||||
3 | government; she promoted a progressive agenda that included the | ||||||
4 | passage of a Human Rights Ordinance in 1975, the first in the | ||||||
5 | state and one of the first in the nation to acknowledge LGBTQ | ||||||
6 | rights; she introduced and shepherded the passage of a Fair | ||||||
7 | Housing Law for the City of Urbana to thwart redlining, and she | ||||||
8 | introduced a resolution putting Urbana on record opposing the | ||||||
9 | war in Vietnam; she also promoted tenant safety with an | ||||||
10 | ordinance requiring deadbolts on all exterior doors of | ||||||
11 | apartments; she advocated for protecting the environment in | ||||||
12 | many ways, including residential collection of recyclable | ||||||
13 | materials, which passed in 1986; she was appointed to the | ||||||
14 | Urbana Planning Commission in 1995 and served for almost 20 | ||||||
15 | years; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake and her husband Bob attended and | ||||||
17 | supported the Unitarian Universalist Church, starting in | ||||||
18 | Lincoln, Nebraska, and then the Green Street church in Urbana; | ||||||
19 | they also attended Camp Unistar in Minnesota for many years; | ||||||
20 | she twice served as president of the board for the Channing | ||||||
21 | Murray Foundation, the campus affiliate of the church; and
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22 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake's foundation was her family and | ||||||
23 | all were welcome in her home; she inspired women to pursue |
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1 | political leadership, campaigned tirelessly for other women | ||||||
2 | pursuing careers in government, and fought for fairness and | ||||||
3 | justice for all in every way she could; she was not afraid to | ||||||
4 | challenge the status quo; she will be remembered as an | ||||||
5 | energetic, spirited, and loving woman, who was beloved for her | ||||||
6 | fighting spirit, optimism, and caring nature; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake was preceded in death by her | ||||||
8 | parents; her brother, Bert Merlin Evans; and her sister, | ||||||
9 | Pauline Evans Lemke; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Bernadine Stake is survived by her husband of 67 | ||||||
11 | years, Robert Stake; her children, Jeffrey (Janet) Stake, | ||||||
12 | Benjamin (Nitaya) Stake, Sara (Mark Joselyn) Stake, and Jacob | ||||||
13 | (Kim Knutson) Stake; her grandchildren, Christopher, Laura, | ||||||
14 | Alison, Walker, and Constantine Stake and Ben, Sam, and Nellie | ||||||
15 | Joselyn; her great-grandson, Maceo Jean-Pierre; her | ||||||
16 | great-granddaughter, Sloane Craig-Stake; her brother, Kenneth | ||||||
17 | (Marilynn) Evans; and her sisters, Enid Kollars and Claryce Lee | ||||||
18 | Evans; therefore, be it
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19 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | ||||||
20 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
21 | Bernadine Evans Stake and extend our sincere condolences to her | ||||||
22 | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | ||||||
23 | further
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1 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
2 | presented to the family of Bernadine Stake as an expression of | ||||||
3 | our deepest sympathy.
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