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1 SENATE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened
3 to learn of the death of Catherine Adrienne Neal of Chicago,
4 who passed away July 2, 2002; and
5 WHEREAS, Ms. Neal was born March 22, 1917, in North
6 Chicago, the daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Neal; she
7 graduated from Holy Child High School in 1935, earned a
8 Registered Nursing degree from St. Therese Hospital in
9 Waukegan in 1940, and in 1942, she received a Bachelor's
10 degree in chemistry from Barat College in Lake Forest; in
11 1975, she earned a Master's degree in hospital administration
12 from the University of Southern California; and
13 WHEREAS, Ms. Neal was a First Lieutenant in the 166th
14 Division of the Army Nurse Corp and served in a field
15 hospital in France during World War II; after the war she
16 came back to Lake County and operated the Neal Mink Ranch in
17 Gurnee from 1946 through 1967; she served as president of the
18 Illinois Fur Breeders Association in the early 1960s, the
19 first woman to ever hold the office; Ms. Neal then lived in
20 Orange County, California, for eighteen years before
21 returning to Gurnee in 1987; and
22 WHEREAS, Ms. Neal was a member of St. Patrick's Church in
23 Wadsworth and a member of the Women's Golf League at Bonnie
24 Brook Golf Course in Waukegan; she was the Lake County
25 Women's Amateur Golf Champion in 1942 for low gross, and in
26 1992, she won the title again for low net; and
27 WHEREAS, Catherine Adrienne Neal will be deeply missed by
28 all those who knew her and loved her, especially her sister,
29 Patricia (Mark) Balms; her sisters-in-law, Julia (John) Neal
30 and Mary (Paul) Neal; her life-long friends, Helen Hayner,
31 Jim Hayner, and his family, Nancy, Katey, and Danny, whom she
32 considered her own; her many loving nieces, nephews,
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1 great-nieces, and great-nephews; and her special friend since
2 early childhood, Earl Atkinson; therefore, be it
3 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SECOND GENERAL
4 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
5 her family and friends, the passing of Catherine Adrienne
6 Neal; and be it further
7 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
8 presented to the family of Catherine Adrienne Neal with our
9 sincere condolences.