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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Jesus Gabriel Martinez of Chatham,
4 formerly of Springfield, who passed away on February 21, 2009;
5 and
 
6     WHEREAS, He was born March 24, 1932, in Havana, Cuba, to
7 Bernandino and Berta Storch Martinez; in 1959 he married Carman
8 O. Casanova in Havana; he graduated from the University of
9 Havana with a degree in accounting and worked for the Cuban
10 government as a CPA prior to it becoming a communist country;
11 and
 
12     WHEREAS, After the Cuban revolution in 1962, Jesus was able
13 to immigrate to the United States, where he joined the United
14 States Army; during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was stationed
15 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina; when Carman was able to
16 emigrate from Cuba, they lived in Florida temporarily; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Due to political unrest and unavailability of his
18 educational documents, Jesus chose to attend Indiana State
19 University in Terre Haute where he earned his B.A. in
20 Education; following his graduation, he and his wife moved to
21 Springfield where, at Jefferson Middle School, he began his
22 30-year Spanish teaching career with Springfield School

 

 

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1 District #186; he also worked for H & R Block; and
 
2     WHEREAS, During his years of teaching, he lived in
3 Springfield and was a member of the Douglas Avenue Methodist
4 Church as well as El Groupo Latino, for which he played the
5 bongo drums; using his training in the United States Army, he
6 enjoyed fixing things; upon retiring in 1995, he moved to
7 Chatham and became a member of Chatham United Methodist Church;
8 throughout his life, he enjoyed his family, listening to music,
9 dancing, going to the beach with family, and looking forward to
10 cooking his traditional lechon assado (roast pork) every
11 Christmas; and
 
12     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife, Carman; his
13 brother, Raul; and his sister, Edilia; and
 
14     WHEREAS, Jesus Martinez is survived by his daughters, Patty
15 (Bob) Lanser and Ivonne Martinez (husband, Tsen Chung Kang);
16 his grandchildren, Haley, Olivia, Sophie, Jack, Christopher,
17 Jonathan, and Emily to whom he was known as abuelo (grandfather
18 in Spanish); and his sister, Berta; therefore, be it
 
19     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
20 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
21 his family and friends, the passing of Jesus Martinez; and be
22 it further
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
2 presented to the family of Jesus Martinez as a symbol of our
3 sincere sympathy.