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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Sally Page of Peoria, who passed away on
4October 15, 2011; and
 
5    WHEREAS, She had founding roles at Lakeview Museum, Planned
6Parenthood, the Arts and Sciences Council, the Human Service
7Center, and other central Illinois agencies and institutions;
8her community leadership spanned 7 decades, from her work
9during World War II to establish the Central Volunteer Bureau
10to her passionate support for the Riverfront Museum; and
 
11    WHEREAS, She chaired the Lakeview Museum council's museum
12committee, led the fund drive, was president when Lakeview
13opened in 1965 and 13 years later led the fund drive to expand
14the museum; 4 decades after groundbreaking for the museum, she
15was happy to be present when the development agreement for the
16new Riverfront Museum was signed; and
 
17    WHEREAS, She also treasured the collaboration that merged 4
18mental health and addiction-related organizations into the
19Human Service Center in 1976; as president of the Comprehensive
20Mental Health Board in the early 1970s, she understood that
21many needing mental health treatment suffered related
22problems, such as addiction, and would fare better if cared for

 

 

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1under one roof; in 1986, the Human Service Center named its
2counseling family home after her; and
 
3    WHEREAS, She was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 29,
41917, to Justus and Hildegard Kirby and grew up in Los Angeles;
5she graduated from Smith College and married Ted Page in 1939;
6and
 
7    WHEREAS, While her husband served in World War II, she
8helped fill in the gaps on the home front by organizing and
9presiding over the Central Volunteer Bureau, the first of its
10kind in Peoria; she championed the establishment of a Planned
11Parenthood chapter in Peoria in the 1950s; in 1968, when a
12busing program was put in place to desegregate District 150
13schools, she led an effort to enlist volunteer tutors to help
14struggling students in their new schools; and
 
15    WHEREAS, She was also involved in the South Side Mission,
16Common Place, the United Way, the Junior League of Peoria, the
17Girl Scouts, Illinois Advocates of the Arts, the Lay Ministries
18Committee of the Peoria Area Council of Churches, and the First
19Baptist Church of Peoria, where she was a 72-year member; and
 
20    WHEREAS, In 1978, she was among 11 recipients statewide of
21the inaugural Governors Award for the Arts; among her other
22awards was the YWCA Legend Award; she and her husband were the

 

 

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1first husband and wife team to be named Citizen of the Year by
2B'nai B'rith in 1979; and
 
3    WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her husband, Ted; and
 
4    WHEREAS, Sally Page is survived by her children, Sally
5Snyder, Ted (Sally) Barrett-Page, and Susan (John) Miller; her
610 grandchildren; and her 11 great-grandchildren; therefore,
7be it
 
8    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL
9ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
10her family and friends, the passing of Sally Page; and be it
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12    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
13presented to the family of Sally Page as a symbol of our
14sincere sympathy.