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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Elizabeth Jean "Betsy" Caprini of
4 Clarendon Hills, formerly of Hinsdale, who passed away on June
5 7, 2007; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Elizabeth Caprini was born in Elizabethtown,
7 Pennsylvania on February 4, 1955; and
 
8     WHEREAS, She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University
9 of Kentucky in 1976; in 1980 she earned her juris doctorate
10 from Vanderbilt University; she was named best oralist of the
11 Jessup International Moot Court Team while attending
12 Vanderbilt; she was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1980, as
13 well as the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the
14 Northern District of Illinois; and
 
15     WHEREAS, She was a member of the American Bar Association,
16 the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar
17 Association, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America;
18 she most recently was employed with Hanson Peters Nye, where
19 she became a partner in 2005; and
 
20     WHEREAS, She was a member of Grace Episcopal Church in
21 Hinsdale, where she sang in the choir; she enjoyed tennis,

 

 

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1 traveling, reading, playing piano, and watching March Madness;
2 and
 
3     WHEREAS, Elizabeth Caprini was preceded in death by her
4 mother, Helen Whinery, and her brother, Andy; she is survived
5 by her husband of 24 years, John M.; her children, Stephanie
6 and Matthew; her father, Robert Whinery; her sisters, Pam (Ken)
7 Knowles, Pat (Joe) Davidson, and Sharon (David) Ohrenstein; and
8 many nieces and nephews; therefore, be it
 
9     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL
10 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
11 her family and friends, the passing of Elizabeth Caprini; and
12 be it further
 
13     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
14 presented to the family of Elizabeth Caprini as a symbol of our
15 sympathy.