Full Text of SR0347 93rd General Assembly
SR0347 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| were saddened to learn of the death of Maureen Elizabeth | 4 |
| McDonald of Chicago on October 17, 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. McDonald was born on August 8, 1946; she grew | 6 |
| up in Morgan Park, on Chicago's southwest side, with her | 7 |
| parents, Maurine and Matt, her brothers, Matt and Tom, and her | 8 |
| sister, Winnie; and
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| WHEREAS, She attended Saint Cajetan Elementary School, | 10 |
| Morgan Park High School, and Webster College in St. Louis, | 11 |
| Missouri; during college, she began her political activism by | 12 |
| joining Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his civil rights march | 13 |
| to Selma, Alabama; and
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| WHEREAS, After college, she worked with the Contract Buyers | 15 |
| League, a community organization in Lawndale on Chicago's west | 16 |
| side that brought civil rights lawsuits on behalf of | 17 |
| African-American homebuyers who were denied conventional | 18 |
| mortgages; and
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| WHEREAS, Eventually, she gave in to her longing for | 20 |
| adventure and yearning to travel and see the world; she headed | 21 |
| to Australia and fell in love with the country and its people; | 22 |
| she lived in the Northern Territory for seven years and had | 23 |
| several diverse careers; she taught Aboriginal children, | 24 |
| managed a hotel, promoted tourism, and visited every part of | 25 |
| the country, collecting life-long friends throughout; and
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| WHEREAS, She returned to her home in Morgan Park, Chicago | 27 |
| and tried her hand at many things; for the past twenty years, | 28 |
| she worked for the Cook County Public Guardian's Office as a | 29 |
| supervisor and a paralegal; she assisted in handling $60 | 30 |
| million in assets for the office's 600 adult wards; her |
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| responsibilities included sorting out and then managing each | 2 |
| ward's financial and legal needs; her care for her clients | 3 |
| extended even past their deaths; she was adamant that each ward | 4 |
| receive a dignified funeral and proper burial; and
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| WHEREAS, Besides working at the Public Guardian's Office, | 6 |
| she would spend her evenings, weekends, and days off | 7 |
| volunteering at homeless shelters, preparing holiday meals | 8 |
| with the Little Brothers' Friends of the Elderly, and acting as | 9 |
| a tour guide for the City of Chicago's "Greeters" Program; and
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| WHEREAS, Throughout her career, she continued to travel | 11 |
| throughout the United States and all over the world; she was | 12 |
| planning a trip next year to Antarctica and South America to | 13 |
| accomplish her goal of visiting all seven continents; and
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| WHEREAS, She will be remembered as more than a paralegal at | 15 |
| the Public Guardian's Office; she was a political activist, a | 16 |
| volunteer, a book club moderator, a travel agent, a tourist, a | 17 |
| funeral director, a fine diner, a theatre critic, an avid | 18 |
| reader, a comedian, and a dear friend to many; and
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| WHEREAS, Maurine is survived by her mother, Maurine; her | 20 |
| brothers, Matt and Tom; her sister, Winnie; and her niece, | 21 |
| Maggie; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 23 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of | 24 |
| Maureen Elizabeth McDonald along with all who knew and loved | 25 |
| her and extend our sincere condolences to her family and | 26 |
| friends; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 28 |
| presented to the family of Maureen Elizabeth McDonald as an | 29 |
| expression of our deepest sympathy.
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