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SENATE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
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learn of the death of Ruth May (Coleman) Winters Unterbrink of 
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Alton, who passed away on November 10, 2008; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She was born March 1, 1919, in Alton, the daughter 
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of Le Roy and Millie Alice (Blacketer) Coleman; on September 2, 
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1934, in Alton, she married Herbert "Pierce" Winters; and

 
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    WHEREAS, She retired from Saint Joseph's Hospital in Alton; 
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she was a member of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus 
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Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a volunteer at Senior 
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Services Plus; and

 

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    WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her parents; her 
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husband; her brother, LeRoy "Bud" Coleman; her baby sister, 
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Millie E. Coleman; her infant daughter, Ruth M. Winters; her 
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great-granddaughter, Angela K. Pace; and her second husband, 
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John Unterbrink; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Ruth May Unterbrink is survived by her three 
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daughters, Alice J. Pace and her husband, Daniel, Marcella M. 
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Smith, and Shirley M. Fletcher; her son, Herb Winters and his 
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wife, Patricia; her grandchildren, Daniel Jr. and Patty Pace, 
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John and Rhonda Pace, Trina and Larry Mills, Mark and Brenda 
 


 






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Pace, Arthur and Melissa Smith, Roger Fletcher, Cindy and David 
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Clendenen, Joanna Winters, Samuel and Akiko Winters, and James 
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Winters and Andrew Winters; her great-grandchildren, John 
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Perotka, Spencer and Courtland Pace, Christa Sharp, Candace 
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Evans, Chanda Mills, Kandice and Stephen Smith, USN Petty 
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Officer Amanda Fletcher, USM Lance Corporal Jeremy Fletcher, 
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Amber, Joshua, and Alyssa Fletcher, and Katy, Sarah, and Jacob 
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Clendenen; her great-great-grandchildren, Ashley Hargiss, 
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Sierra Perotka, and Trevor, Trenton, and David Evans; her 
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sisters, Lucy Jacoby, Dorothy Pruitt, and Mary Redman; and her 
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brothers, Joe Coleman and Paul Coleman; therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
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her family and friends, the passing of Ruth May (Coleman) 
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Winters Unterbrink; and be it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of Ruth May Unterbrink as a symbol of 
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our sincere sympathy.