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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| learned with regret of the death of Simone J. Mokrauer of Oak |
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| Park on April 21, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born in Strasbourg, France, and also lived |
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| in Germany, England, Scotland, and Lebanon, before moving to |
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| the United States in 1946; after seven years in Manhattan and |
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| five years in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, she and her family |
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| moved to Westfield, New Jersey, where she lived for the next 45 |
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| years; in 2003 she retired to Holley Court Terrace in Oak Park; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Mokrauer was educated at the Sorbonne in |
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| Paris and dedicated her life to French and German education as |
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| a teacher and a private tutor, traveling the world to sightsee |
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| and visit her many friends and her constantly expanding family; |
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| she was an inveterate reader and Scrabble player in French, |
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| German, and English, and in her constant effort to expand her |
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| horizons, she was an avid participant in various activities, |
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| most notably the Great Books Program; and
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| WHEREAS, In Westfield, she was a member of Le Petit Coin de |
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| France, the Westfield Historical Society, and the Westfield |
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| Community Players, and she hosted a group of former French |
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| students from Kean University for more than 25 years; in Oak |
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| Park she attended meetings of the French Club; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Simone Mokrauer has been deeply |
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| felt by many, especially her children, Margot Loewenstein, Tuny |
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| Mokrauer (Dan Madden), and Donald Mokrauer (Ellen Kirschner); |
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| her nine grandchildren; her 15 great-grandchildren; and her |
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| four great-great-grandchildren; she was preceded in death in |
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| 1980 by her husband of 45 years, Bernhard Norbert; therefore, |
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| be it
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