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HOUSE RESOLUTION

  
 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of 
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Representatives are pleased to congratulate Dolores E. Bell on 
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her 90th birthday, December 4, 2009; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Dolores E. Mancilla was born on December 4, 1919 
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in Wichita, Kansas; her father was from Mexico and her mother 
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was of Irish descent and from Oklahoma; she lived in Oklahoma 
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and West Chicago as a child and also lived with her father, her 
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sister, and her two brothers in the Eola boxcars when her 
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father came to Aurora to work for the Burlington railroad; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, She attended Oak Park grade school, East Aurora 
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High School, and Waubonsee Community College in her 60s, where 
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she took classes in auto mechanics, dancing, and piano; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, She proudly flies the American Flag in front of 
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her home at Kane and East Avenue, where she has lived for 
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almost 60 years; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS,  During World War II she worked for the war effort 
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packing parachutes for parachute flares in Montgomery; she 
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worked in soap processing at Armour Dial and retired in 1986; 
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    WHEREAS, Dolores was married to John A. Bell, the love of 
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her life, until his passing in 1982; she is the mother of 9, 
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the grandmother of 33 grandchildren and step-grandchildren, 
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and the great-grandmother of 10; therefore, be it
  
 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 
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NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we 
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congratulate Dolores Bell on this momentous occasion and wish 
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her good health and happiness for years to come; and be it 
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further
  
 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to Dolores Bell as a symbol of our respect and 
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esteem.