Bill Text: IL SR2193 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Peggy Roche Boyle.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-11-28 - Resolution Adopted [SR2193 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SR2193-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 Peggy Roche Boyle, who passed away on | ||||||
4 | April 14, 2018 at the age of 73; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Peggy Boyle was born to Patrick and Kathleen | ||||||
6 | Roche; one of four children, she grew up on the West Side in | ||||||
7 | St. Thomas Aquinas parish; when she was four years old, her | ||||||
8 | mother passed away; a few years later, her father married Grace | ||||||
9 | Dorgan, and they had four more children; when she was 13, she | ||||||
10 | began her long and devoted career in the dance industry as her | ||||||
11 | father's dance driller, counting out steps and demonstrating | ||||||
12 | them for students; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Peggy Boyle became certified by the Irish Dancing | ||||||
14 | Commission as a dance teacher by learning the melodies of 30 | ||||||
15 | dances and memorizing how to perform at least eight of them; | ||||||
16 | with the Pat Roche School of Irish Dancing, Peggy Boyle gave | ||||||
17 | lessons at Connolly's pub, the Doonaree Room, and Emerald | ||||||
18 | Catering; she also taught at the American Legion Hall in | ||||||
19 | Brookfield and the West Dale Gardens Community Center in | ||||||
20 | Hillside; she was well known in the dance community as a | ||||||
21 | "no-nonsense instructor" who could quiet a room with just one | ||||||
22 | look; she also encouraged a sense of camaraderie amongst her | ||||||
23 | students and promoted friendships; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Peggy Boyle expressed that dancing was about | ||||||
2 | having fun, and although she was excited for her students to | ||||||
3 | win a competition, it was "much more important to her that her | ||||||
4 | students loved Irish dancing"; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Peggy Roche married Jimmy Boyle, a guitar player, | ||||||
6 | and together they formed the Traveling People, a group that | ||||||
7 | performed throughout Chicago; she often performed spoons with | ||||||
8 | the group and, according to her son, Seamus, was "one of the | ||||||
9 | finest spoons players they'd ever heard"; and
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10 | WHEREAS, As her family grew, Peggy Boyle settled in | ||||||
11 | Brookfield and scaled back on dance instruction to care for her | ||||||
12 | children; after she had her fifth child, she started teaching | ||||||
13 | dance to adults at St. Xavier University and to young children | ||||||
14 | at her home; she simultaneously worked for travel agencies, | ||||||
15 | including Gaffney Travel on the South Side; she founded her own | ||||||
16 | travel agency, Roche Tours, which led groups to Ireland; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Peggy Boyle was a gifted cook who especially | ||||||
18 | admired the Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten's recipes, however, | ||||||
19 | Irish soda bread was her way of comforting many; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Peggy Boyle was the dear sister of Kathleen (Tom) | ||||||
21 | McDonnell, Mary Pat (Tony) Kulak, Patrick (Jan) Roche, Collette |
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1 | (Tom) McGrath, Kevin (Joanne) Roche, Michael (Suzanne) Roche, | ||||||
2 | and the late John (Liane) Roche, the devoted and loving mother | ||||||
3 | of Meghan (Marcus) Larson, Kathleen (Jim) Farnan, Siobhan (Tom) | ||||||
4 | Luedtke, Seamus (Beth) Boyle, and Patrick (Amy) Boyle, the | ||||||
5 | proud grandmother of 15, and the fond aunt of many nieces and | ||||||
6 | nephews; therefore, be it
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7 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | ||||||
8 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
9 | Peggy Roche Boyle and extend our sincere condolences to her | ||||||
10 | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | ||||||
11 | further
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12 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
13 | presented to the family of Peggy Boyle as an expression of our | ||||||
14 | deepest sympathy.
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