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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Henrietta Pigg of Lake Forest, who passed
4away on September 25, 2017; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Henrietta Pigg was born in Butler, Pennsylvania to
6Oliver Herman LaBernz and Sarah Agnes Logan on April 28, 1927;
7she graduated from Butler High School in 1944; during high
8school, her talents as a pianist were recognized, and she was
9selected to participate in a program sponsored by the Hammond
10Organ Company; following high school, she attended Westminster
11College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania and then enrolled in
12nursing school at Allegheny General Hospital; she graduated
13with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing in 1949; she married Edgar
14Woolard Pigg Sr. in October of 1952; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Henrietta Pigg began her nursing career in the
16Emergency Room at Allegheny General Hospital; she also worked
17as an Assistant Nursing Arts Instructor; after suspending her
18nursing career to focus on raising her children, she joined
19Westmoreland Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she worked until
20her retirement in 1999; and
 
21    WHEREAS, Henrietta Pigg was active in her church, Grace
22United Methodist Church, and was a member of the United

 

 

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1Methodist Women Circle and The Questers; her talents for
2accompanying the choir and other musicians led to her
3appointment as church organist, where she served nearly every
4Sunday for over 40 years; she loved playing the organ and piano
5for the choir, and she tirelessly promoted the music ministry
6at Grace; she also played for the vesper services for residents
7at Westmoreland and Lake Forest Place; and
 
8    WHEREAS, Henrietta Pigg volunteered for the Lake Bluff
9Garden Club; she was a Paul Harris Fellow and remained active
10in Rotary International until her death; she always had a sense
11of humor about her name and was an avid collector of anything
12porcine; and
 
13    WHEREAS, Henrietta Pigg was preceded in death by her
14husband, Edgar Pigg Sr.; and her sister, Katherine LaBernz
15Wightman; and
 
16    WHEREAS, Henrietta Pigg is survived by her children,
17Katherine Pigg (Fred III) Boebel, Edgar Woolard (Barbara)
18Hammond, and David Oliver (Marguerite Welter) Pigg; her
19grandchildren, Fred IV and Katherine Grace Boebel, Carolyn and
20Robert Hammond, and David Jr. and Emma Pigg; therefore, be it
 
21    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL
22ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of

 

 

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1Henrietta Pigg and extend our sincere condolences to her
2family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it
3further
 
4    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
5presented to the family of Henrietta Pigg as an expression of
6our deepest sympathy.