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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are pleased to congratulate Yolanda A.
4 Pellegrino on the occasion of her 90th birthday on November 8,
5 2009; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Yolanda Pellegrino was born on November 8, 1919 in
7 Chicago; her parents are Aquila Cinelli Covelli and Serafino
8 Covelli, both of whom immigrated to Chicago from Marano
9 Principato, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy in 1911; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Yolanda Pellegrino met her future husband, Paul
11 Pellegrino, in the Taylor Street neighborhood where they both
12 lived; the couple were married in 1938 and had 4 beautiful
13 children, Nancy Mary Casazza, Steven Paul Pellegrino, Robert
14 Pellegrino, and Richard Frank Pellegrino; she also has 9
15 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Yolanda Pellegrino has spent her entire life
17 serving others and has touched the lives of every person that
18 she has ever met; therefore, be it
 
19     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
20 NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
21 congratulate Yolanda A. Pellegrino on the occasion of her 90th

 

 

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1 birthday and wish her many happy and healthy years to come; and
2 be it further
 
3     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
4 presented to Yolanda Pellegrino as a symbol of our esteem and
5 respect.