SR0924 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to learn of the death of Ruth May (Coleman) Winters Unterbrink of Alton, who passed away on November 10, 2008; and

WHEREAS, She was born March 1, 1919, in Alton, the daughter of Le Roy and Millie Alice (Blacketer) Coleman; on September 2, 1934, in Alton, she married Herbert "Pierce" Winters; and

WHEREAS, She retired from Saint Joseph's Hospital in Alton; she was a member of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a volunteer at Senior Services Plus; and

WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brother, LeRoy "Bud" Coleman; her baby sister, Millie E. Coleman; her infant daughter, Ruth M. Winters; her great-granddaughter, Angela K. Pace; and her second husband, John Unterbrink; and

WHEREAS, Ruth May Unterbrink is survived by her three daughters, Alice J. Pace and her husband, Daniel, Marcella M. Smith, and Shirley M. Fletcher; her son, Herb Winters and his wife, Patricia; her grandchildren, Daniel Jr. and Patty Pace, John and Rhonda Pace, Trina and Larry Mills, Mark and Brenda Pace, Arthur and Melissa Smith, Roger Fletcher, Cindy and David Clendenen, Joanna Winters, Samuel and Akiko Winters, and James Winters and Andrew Winters; her great-grandchildren, John Perotka, Spencer and Courtland Pace, Christa Sharp, Candace Evans, Chanda Mills, Kandice and Stephen Smith, USN Petty Officer Amanda Fletcher, USM Lance Corporal Jeremy Fletcher, Amber, Joshua, and Alyssa Fletcher, and Katy, Sarah, and Jacob Clendenen; her great-great-grandchildren, Ashley Hargiss, Sierra Perotka, and Trevor, Trenton, and David Evans; her sisters, Lucy Jacoby, Dorothy Pruitt, and Mary Redman; and her brothers, Joe Coleman and Paul Coleman; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of Ruth May (Coleman) Winters Unterbrink; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Ruth May Unterbrink as a symbol of our sincere sympathy.