Bill Text: IL SR2156 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Jean A. Omara.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-11-15 - Resolution Adopted [SR2156 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SR2156-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 Jean A. Omara, who passed away on May 23, | ||||||
| 4 | 2018 at the age of 91; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Jean Omara was born at West Suburban Hospital in | ||||||
| 6 | Oak Park to Tom and Berdena Omara on May 12, 1927; she was a | ||||||
| 7 | longtime resident of Oak Park, where she was raised with her | ||||||
| 8 | sister, Marjorie; she graduated from Oak Park and River Forest | ||||||
| 9 | High School in 1945; she then graduated from both Stephens | ||||||
| 10 | College in Columbia, Missouri and DePauw University in | ||||||
| 11 | Greencastle, Indiana; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Jean Omara was a longtime employee of Booz Allen | ||||||
| 13 | Hamilton in Chicago; upon retirement, she served as the | ||||||
| 14 | associate director of the Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of | ||||||
| 15 | Commerce and worked for Pilgrim Realty; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Jean Omara was a faithful and devoted member of | ||||||
| 17 | the Episcopal Church in River Forest and a member of the | ||||||
| 18 | Episcopal Church Women; she was committed to the Oak Park River | ||||||
| 19 | Forest Community, which included many years of service to West | ||||||
| 20 | Suburban Hospital and Zonta International; in her later years, | ||||||
| 21 | she lived at the Beacon Hill Retirement Center in Lombard; she | ||||||
| 22 | was kind and generous; her final wish was to donate her brain | ||||||
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| 1 | to Rush Memory Clinic for scientific research toward finding a | ||||||
| 2 | cure for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Jean Omara was preceded in death by her adored | ||||||
| 4 | sister, Marjorie (the late Bob) Maxwell; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Jean Omara is survived by her nephew, Tom | ||||||
| 6 | (Deborah) Maxwell; her great-niece, Kathleen Maxwell; her | ||||||
| 7 | cousin, Virginia (Walter) Bell, and their children and | ||||||
| 8 | grandchildren; and Susan (Richard) Conrad; therefore, be it
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| 9 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 10 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
| 11 | Jean A. Omara and extend our sincere condolences to her family, | ||||||
| 12 | friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it further
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| 13 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 14 | presented to the family of Jean Omara as an expression of our | ||||||
| 15 | deepest sympathy.
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