Bill Text: IL SR0445 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Ellen Whitney of Springfield.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-09-01 - Resolution Adopted [SR0445 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SR0445-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | ||||||
3 | to learn of the death of Ellen M. Whitney of Springfield, who | ||||||
4 | passed away on July 14, 2021; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney was born to Reverend C.H. and Irene | ||||||
6 | Whitehurst Todd in Evanston on March 13, 1920; she graduated | ||||||
7 | from Greenville High School; she married Francis A. Whitney in | ||||||
8 | 1940; she attended Southern Illinois University and finished | ||||||
9 | third in the class of 1941; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney worked for the International News | ||||||
11 | Service as a reporter and as a teacher at Feitshens High | ||||||
12 | School; she worked for 32 years at the Illinois State | ||||||
13 | Historical Library; she was a historical research editor of | ||||||
14 | the papers of the late Dr. George E. Black, which required more | ||||||
15 | than a year of work; she noted that her most difficult | ||||||
16 | assignment was editing the library's exhaustive collection of | ||||||
17 | the Black Hawk War papers, which required many years of work | ||||||
18 | and filled four volumes; as part of her work, she was called to | ||||||
19 | Washington, D.C. to serve as an expert witness in a very | ||||||
20 | difficult American Indian claims case from the Black Hawk War | ||||||
21 | of 1832, which ended with a rare Native American victory; for | ||||||
22 | her last major project, she was a compiler of Illinois | ||||||
23 | History: An Annotated Bibliography with Janice A. Petterchak |
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1 | and Sandra Stark; and
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2 | WHEREAS, For her work on the Black Hawk War papers, Ellen | ||||||
3 | Whitney earned a national reputation and awards from the | ||||||
4 | American Association for state and local history and from the | ||||||
5 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney was preceded in death by her | ||||||
7 | husband; her parents; her brother, Harold Todd; and her | ||||||
8 | sister, Grace Todd; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney is survived by her one son, Blair | ||||||
10 | (Rita) Whitney; her two grandchildren, Ruth (Ken) Antonoff and | ||||||
11 | Helen Whitney; and her four great-grandchildren, Zachary and | ||||||
12 | Chelsea Marek and Eva and Joseph Antonoff; therefore, be it
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13 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | ||||||
14 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
15 | Ellen M. Whitney and extend our sincere condolences to her | ||||||
16 | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | ||||||
17 | further
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18 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
19 | presented to the family of Ellen Whitney as an expression of | ||||||
20 | our deepest sympathy.
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