Full Text of SR0403 93rd General Assembly
SR0403 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 passing of Patricia Thompson | 4 |
| Madden, on August 31, 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, Patricia Thompson Madden was born in Peoria and | 6 |
| moved frequently as a child, living in Chicago; Muncie, | 7 |
| Indiana; Kansas City, Missouri; and Villa Park; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Madden was a member of the first graduating | 9 |
| class of Willowbrook High School in Villa Park and graduated | 10 |
| from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in | 11 |
| nursing; she received her master's degree in community mental | 12 |
| health nursing from Arizona State University; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Madden went to work after college at the U.S. | 14 |
| Army Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, where she was a firsthand | 15 |
| witness of the civil rights movement; she became an advocate of | 16 |
| equal rights for all, regardless of race, religion, sexual | 17 |
| orientation, and economic class; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Madden went on to work with psychiatric | 19 |
| patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Waco, | 20 |
| Texas, where she witnessed the toll the Vietnam War took on | 21 |
| returning veterans; in the late 1960s, she served as a | 22 |
| psychiatric nurse at Denver General Hospital, and she also | 23 |
| spent several years teaching at California State University in | 24 |
| Sacramento, California; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Madden was appointed Executive Director of | 26 |
| Planned Parenthood of Miami Valley in Dayton, Ohio in 1977, | 27 |
| during which time, she organized one of the largest marches for | 28 |
| abortion and reproductive rights outside of the District of | 29 |
| Columbia; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Madden returned to the Chicago area in 1986 | 2 |
| and began working for the State of Illinois, first as the | 3 |
| Associate Director for Administration of the Illinois State | 4 |
| Psychiatric Institute, and then as the Hospital Administrator | 5 |
| of the John J. Madden Mental Health Center; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Madden was very involved in the Oak Park | 7 |
| community, where she was a sixteen year resident, serving as | 8 |
| chairperson of the Barrie Park Citizens Advisory Committee from | 9 |
| its inception in 1999, and as a member of the First United | 10 |
| Church of Oak Park, where she served as chairperson of the | 11 |
| Christian Education Committee, as a member of the Church | 12 |
| Council, and as an ordained Elder in the Presbyterian Church; | 13 |
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Madden was a woman who dedicated her life to | 15 |
| women's issues, reproductive rights, and persons with mental | 16 |
| illness; and
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| WHEREAS, Patricia Thompson Madden's passing was deeply | 18 |
| felt by many, especially her son and daughter-in-law, Robert | 19 |
| Baren and Alice; her father, Robert Thompson; her sister, | 20 |
| Elizabeth; her brother-in-law, Stanley Hewins; her brother, | 21 |
| Lawrence Robert Thompson; her sister-in-law, Rhonda; her aunt, | 22 |
| Nancy Tobara; her nephews, Jason (wife, Olivia Herrick), | 23 |
| Christopher, Shawn (wife, Daniele), Eric, and Shaden Thompson; | 24 |
| her nieces Carrie and Shaelynn Thompson; and her many friends; | 25 |
| her mother, Dorothy Thompson, is deceased; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 27 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of | 28 |
| Patricia Thompson Madden; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 30 |
| presented to the family of Patricia Thompson Madden as an | 31 |
| expression of our sorrow for their loss.
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