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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Roberta Brabant Allen of Godfrey, who
4passed away on December 9, 2011; and
 
5    WHEREAS, "Berta," as she was known, was born April 17,
61912, in Pleasanton, Kansas, and graduated with honors from the
7University of Kansas with a degree in journalism in 1932, while
8working as treasurer of 3 different sororities to pay her
9tuition; she met her future husband, Dr. Hubert Lee Allen Jr.,
10at the University of Kansas; and
 
11    WHEREAS, She lived in Fort Scott, Kansas, raising her
12children while Lt. Col. Allen was director of a MASH Unit
13during World War II for 4 years in the South Pacific; the
14family has an amazing collection of over 2,000 letters they
15exchanged which reflect the effect of the war and years of long
16separation on their small family; they moved to Alton upon Dr.
17Allen's return from overseas; and
 
18    WHEREAS, She served on the Alton woman's Home Board,
19Community Service League, AAUW, Alton Planning Commission, and
20was a member of PEO Chapter IL; she loved gardening and enjoyed
21the piano and violin; she enjoyed reminiscing about her years
22of growing up in a small Kansas farm community and laughed

 

 

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1about being Captain of her high school basketball team, the
2Pleasanton Blue Jays; and
 
3    WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her husband; her son,
4Hubert L. Allen III; her grandson, Hubert Lee Allen IV; and her
5daughter-in-law, Beverly Allen; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Roberta Allen was the beloved mother of the late
7Hubert Lee Allen III (Marion), Benjamin B. Allen (Trudi), and
8Christopher C. Allen (Rosie); she was the loving grandmother to
9Geoffrey Allen, Benjamin Allen Jr., Peter Allen (Gina), Betsy
10Puent (John), Cade Miller (Metaxia), Spencer Allen (Rachel),
11Stephanie Allen (Fabrizio), and Bryce Allen; she was the
12beloved great-grandmother of Geoffrey and Ashley Allen, Hunter
13Wyatt and Hubert Phog Allen, Lily, Claire, and Jack Puent,
14Lilliana Miller, Amelia, and Charles Allen; therefore, be it
 
15    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL
16ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
17her family and friends, the passing of Roberta Allen; and be it
18further
 
19    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
20presented to the family of Roberta Allen as a symbol of our
21sincere sympathy.