Full Text of HR1187 93rd General Assembly
HR1187 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives were saddened to learn of the death of Mae M. | 4 |
| Stinespring, who passed away on Monday, August 23, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring was born on February 17, 1912 in | 6 |
| Chicago to John F. and Goldie Belle (Patterson) Marty; she | 7 |
| married Harry P. Stinespring on August 18, 1936; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring graduated from Carl Schurz High | 9 |
| School in Chicago in 1930 where she served as class vice | 10 |
| president while her husband, Harry was class president; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring was a piano soloist at the | 12 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she was 17 and 18 years old; | 13 |
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring graduated from Northwestern | 15 |
| University in 1934 with a bachelor of science from the school | 16 |
| of speech and a minor in education and Latin; and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring taught at Evanston Grade School | 18 |
| and the Croatian Children's Home in Niles; in 1985, she was | 19 |
| inducted into the Carol Schurz Hall of Fame; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring dedicated her life to community | 21 |
| service through life long activities as a leader and founder of | 22 |
| numerous organizations; she was founder of NIMC Auxillary Board | 23 |
| and served as president from 1956 to 1958; she served as | 24 |
| chairman of the NIMC Foundation Board from 1984 through 1987; | 25 |
| during her leadership on the Foundation Board, she guided the | 26 |
| first NIMC capital campaign to build the new McHenry | 27 |
| Hospital/NIMC which opened at its present site in 1984; she | 28 |
| served on the NIMC board of directors from 1982 to 1985; she | 29 |
| also served as an ex-officio member of the Northern Illinois |
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| Human Services (parent) Board from 1984 to 1986; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring was a founding member of Family | 3 |
| Services and Community Mental Health Center of McHenry in 1959; | 4 |
| she served on the board of directors from 1959 to 1979, and was | 5 |
| honored as the "Woman of the Year" in 1984 on its 25th | 6 |
| anniversary; she was a founding member of hospice services in | 7 |
| McHenry County and served on their board of directors from 1982 | 8 |
| to 1983; in 1979 she was awarded the "Woman of the Year" by the | 9 |
| McHenry Business and Professional Women's Club; she also served | 10 |
| as a director of the First National Bank of McHenry and of | 11 |
| Chicago Manufacturing Company and was a long-standing member of | 12 |
| the Union League of Chicago; she was a member of PEO | 13 |
| International Women's Organization, member and former officer | 14 |
| of Questers International, member, former leader and sponsor of | 15 |
| Job's Daughters of McHenry, member of the League of Women | 16 |
| Voters, founder of THEOS (To Help Each Other To Smile), a | 17 |
| support group for widows and widowers, and she was also on the | 18 |
| board of directors of Conference Point Camp; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, In 1983, "The Tree of Life" a bronze sculpture was | 20 |
| donated to NIMC by Mrs. Stinespring in honor of her husband; | 21 |
| The Tree of Life program is a vital part of the ongoing donor | 22 |
| commemorative and memorial programs at Centegra; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring also had the idea for McHenry | 24 |
| County Meals on Wheels; she began the process through the | 25 |
| Diocesan Council of Catholic Women in the early 1970s in the | 26 |
| McHenry and Wonder Lake area; she also delivered meals to the | 27 |
| aged and infirmed; and | 28 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring was a member of First United | 29 |
| Church in McHenry, where she was involved in the women's circle | 30 |
| activities, the scholarship program and she was a church | 31 |
| conference delegate; and |
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Stinespring was preceded in death by her | 2 |
| husband, her parents, a daughter, Sue Cain, a son, John W. | 3 |
| Stinespring, a grandson, Gregory Cain, and a brother, Matthew | 4 |
| "Pete" Marty; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, The passing of Mrs. Stinespring has been deeply | 6 |
| felt by all who knew her, especially her three children, Harry | 7 |
| P. (Janice) Stinespring III, Donald C. (Susan) Stinespring, and | 8 |
| Leota Belle "Libby" (James) Britton; six grandchildren, M. | 9 |
| David (Donna) Cain Jr., Harry P. "Hal" Stinespring IV, John R. | 10 |
| (Susie) Stinespring, Donald C. (Kari) Stinespring Jr., Brenton | 11 |
| C. (Ali) Stinespring, Carissa G. Belle Stinespring; eight | 12 |
| great-grandchildren, Theresa, Rachel, and Deborah Cain, | 13 |
| Rachael, Kelsey, and Caleb Stinespring, Keegan Stinespring, | 14 |
| Lucas Holub; and many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and | 15 |
| great-nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 |
| mourn the passing of Mae M. Stinespring, along with all who | 19 |
| knew and loved her, and offer her family and friends our | 20 |
| deepest sympathy; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to the family of Mae M. Stinespring with our | 23 |
| sincerest condolences.
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