Full Text of SR1609 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Margaret Sandner Eyre, who passed away on | 4 | | January 13, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Eyre was born on May 9, 1918 to Ed and | 6 | | Elisabeth Sandner, Austrian immigrants who arrived in the | 7 | | United States just before World War I; she attended Immaculate | 8 | | Conception Grammar School and was inducted into the National | 9 | | Honor Society at York High School; upon her graduation in 1936, | 10 | | she attended Gregg Business College; she married Leonard W. | 11 | | Eyre in 1943 in Norfolk, Virginia and they settled in Elmhurst; | 12 | | and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Eyre's first job was working for the | 14 | | Donnelley Publishing Company; later, she became the office | 15 | | manager for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in | 16 | | Elmhurst; she and her husband ran a successful general | 17 | | contracting business; they became licensed real estate brokers | 18 | | and were honored with recognition and publicity about the | 19 | | beautiful homes they built in LaGrange, Western Springs, | 20 | | Hinsdale, and Burr Ridge; in 1970, they moved to Woodstock and | 21 | | started a small rental business that has continued for 45 | 22 | | years; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Eyre was a member of the Mothers Club, | 2 | | the membership secretary of the Fine Arts Club at the Opera | 3 | | House, and was a volunteer at the Woodstock Hospital; she and | 4 | | her friend, Donna Strain, became the first female Elks (not | 5 | | Does) at the Elks Club in Woodstock; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In 1988, Margaret Eyre became active in her son's | 7 | | business, Rich's Foxwillow Pines Nursery; her
specialty was | 8 | | hostas and she propagated the plants and sold them for Heifer | 9 | | International; she raised over $500,000 for world hunger, | 10 | | allowing Heifer to buy farm animals for people around the world | 11 | | with
the agreement that those farmers would give what they | 12 | | received and pass on the gift to others in their
communities; | 13 | | some of those funds were donated to the Heifer International | 14 | | Foundation, where the funds
remain in perpetuity and the | 15 | | interest is given to projects in Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, | 16 | | Haiti, and
Bolivia; she received a Gill Ark Award in 2004 for | 17 | | her Hosta Happening Sales and the Heifer
Certificate of Service | 18 | | Award in 2010; she had an army of volunteers to help her in the | 19 | | hosta patch
and she had her own regular customers who came to | 20 | | purchase her hosta varieties; she was known
as the "Hosta | 21 | | Queen"; she was thrilled when Tom Michiletti, former President | 22 | | of the American
Hosta Society, hybridized a hosta and named it | 23 | | "Margaret Eyre"; she worked every day at the nursery
until she | 24 | | was 93 years old; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, On December 21, 2015, Mano a Mano International | 2 | | presented Margaret Eyre with a plaque for a school in Sora | 3 | | Sora, Bolivia, dedicated in her honor for her years of work on | 4 | | behalf of the people of Bolivia; the school is scheduled to be | 5 | | completed by April of 2016; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Eyre was preceded in death by her | 7 | | husband, Leonard; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Eyre is survived by her son and his wife, | 9 | | Richard and Susan Eyre; many cousins, nieces, and nephews; and | 10 | | numerous friends and customers; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 12 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 13 | | Margaret Sandner Eyre, and extend our sincere condolences to | 14 | | her family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 15 | | further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to the family of Margaret Eyre as an expression of | 18 | | our deepest sympathy.
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