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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Each year, members of Share Pregnancy and Infant
3 Loss Support Group in Springfield meet at a "Walk to Remember"
4 to honor the lives of their children that have died; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Share was started in 1977 at St. John's Hospital
6 in Springfield by Sister Jane Marie Lamb, OSF, after she had
7 worked with bereaved parents in Decatur with a group called
8 AMEND (Aiding Mothers and Fathers Experiencing Neonatal
9 Death); at the time, there was not much support or knowledge
10 for parents experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death
11 of an infant; and
 
12     WHEREAS, In 1978, Share began providing education on
13 perinatal loss and bereavement in hospitals, colleges,
14 seminaries, and support groups; this became part of the
15 curriculum for St. John's Hospital School of Nursing, Lincoln
16 Land Nursing School, SIU School of Medicine, and for various
17 departments at the University of Illinois - Springfield; and
 
18     WHEREAS, The national Share office has moved from
19 Springfield, first to Belleville, and then to its present
20 location in St. Charles, Missouri, but the Springfield chapter
21 of Share continues to meet monthly in support of bereaved
22 parents; and
 
23     WHEREAS, Nearly every month for close to twenty years,
24 Kreston and Elizabeth Lipscomb have facilitated the
25 Springfield Share chapter; they have shared their own
26 experience with painful losses and the joy of their three
27 living children with literally hundreds and hundreds of
28 bereaved parents, thus offering comfort, support, empathy, and
29 hope for the future; and
 
30     WHEREAS, This year, the annual "Walk to Remember" is

 

 

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1 scheduled for the last weekend in September; therefore, be it
 
2     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
4 we recognize the annual "Walk to Remember", and we thank Kres
5 and Liz Lipscomb for the support, empathy, and hope they have
6 provided to so many grieving parents; and be it further
 
7     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
8 presented to Becky Bee, chairman of the Walk to Remember, to
9 the Springfield chapter of Share, and to Kres and Liz Lipscomb
10 as an expression of our gratitude.