Bill Text: IL SR1068 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Mary Ellen Fischer of Godfrey.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-02 - Resolution Adopted [SR1068 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SR1068-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 Mary Ellen Fischer of Godfrey, who passed | ||||||
| 4 | away on November 16, 2010; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, She was born November 26, 1923, in Blair, the | ||||||
| 6 | daughter of David and Mona Starr (Ervin) Jones; she attended | ||||||
| 7 | Blair Country School and Sparta High School; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, She attended Shurtleff College, where she met her | ||||||
| 9 | future husband, Paul M. Fischer; they were married January 29, | ||||||
| 10 | 1944, in Sparta; she and her husband lived in the Alton area | ||||||
| 11 | for more than 50 years; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, She was a Girl Scout troop leader and past | ||||||
| 13 | president of the River Bluffs Girl Scout Council, an active | ||||||
| 14 | member and past president of P.E.O. Chapter GG, an active | ||||||
| 15 | member of College Avenue Presbyterian Church, where she was a | ||||||
| 16 | member of Ruth Circle, and served as an elder and a deacon, and | ||||||
| 17 | a member and past president of the Alton Community Service | ||||||
| 18 | League; she also was a member of the Ladies Golf League at | ||||||
| 19 | Lockhaven Country Club, where she scored a hole-in-one on Hole | ||||||
| 20 | Number 8 at age 79; she was an avid fisherwoman, and had a | ||||||
| 21 | stump named in her honor at Wood Lake, Ely, Minnesota; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her parents; and her | ||||||
| 2 | sister, Betty (Mrs. Eugene) Lane; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Mary Ellen Fischer is survived by her husband of | ||||||
| 4 | 66 years, Paul; her children, Thomas Paul (Cathy) Fischer, Ann | ||||||
| 5 | Elisabeth (Dr. David) Athas, Dr. John William (Amy) Fischer, | ||||||
| 6 | and Laura Jane Fischer; her grandchildren, Andrew Paul | ||||||
| 7 | (Allegra) Fischer, Rosemary Margherita Fischer, Julie Ann | ||||||
| 8 | Athas, Laura Elisabeth Athas, Nicholas Robert (Monica) | ||||||
| 9 | Fischer, Craig Michael (Trisha) Fischer, and Kirstin Elizabeth | ||||||
| 10 | Fischer; her great-grandchildren, Riley Lee Fischer, Grace | ||||||
| 11 | Margaret Fischer, and James Michael Fischer; and her | ||||||
| 12 | brother-in-law, Dr. Don A.(Sue) Fischer; therefore, be it
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| 13 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 14 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 15 | her family and friends, the passing of Mary Ellen Fischer; and | ||||||
| 16 | be it further
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| 17 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 18 | presented to the family of Mary Ellen Fischer as a symbol of | ||||||
| 19 | our sincere sympathy.
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