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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Margaret D. Horrigan of Joliet, who
4 passed away on January 5, 2009; and
 
5     WHEREAS, She was born on May 15, 1927, and raised in
6 Lockport before moving to Joliet; Margaret Irene was the only
7 daughter of Genevieve (Casey) Dailey and Aloysius Patrick
8 Dailey; she was the youngest grandchild of Civil War veteran
9 Lt. James Casey of the Grand Army of the Republic, and niece of
10 Monsignor Joseph Casey of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in
11 Chicago, and, through both sets of grandparents, was related to
12 numerous families among Lockport's and Lemont's oldest
13 settlers; and
 
14     WHEREAS, She was a valued member of St. Paul the Apostle
15 Church, Joliet (attended by all of her eight children), the
16 Visitation and Aid Society, St Joseph Hospital Auxiliary, St.
17 Paul's Mothers Club, Joliet Junior Women's Club, Saint Francis
18 Academy (class of 1945), and St Mary of the Woods (class of
19 1948); she married her high school sweetheart, John Hurley
20 Horrigan, at St. Dennis Church in 1948; and
 
21     WHEREAS, A life-long Democrat, Marge was on the floor of
22 the 1956 Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago when

 

 

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1 Adlai Stevenson received the presidential nomination, and,
2 loading them into the station wagon, took her young children to
3 many of John F. Kennedy's whistle-stop appearances throughout
4 Will County during his successful presidential campaign in
5 1960; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Margaret was preceded in death by her parents,
7 Aloysius Patrick and Genevieve Dailey; her son, Patrick
8 Horrigan; her grandson, Eliot Horrigan; and two brothers,
9 William J. Dailey and Robert Dailey; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Margaret Horrigan is survived by her loving and
11 devoted husband of 60 years, John H. Horrigan; her seven
12 children, Peter, William, Anne (Amy Szczepaniak), Betsy (Tim)
13 Carlin, Margaret (Karl) Schmitz, Stephen, and Catherine (Doug)
14 Mohundro; her daughter in-law, Betsy Hollister Dvorak; her
15 eleven grandchildren, Amanda (Keith) Gregory, Nina (William)
16 Manley, Benjamin Horrigan, Ellen (R.D.) McCabe, and Zoe
17 Horrigan; Thomas, Gabriel, and Courtney Christopher;
18 Catherine, Casey, and Patrick Lowry; her step grandchildren,
19 Adam and Jake Mohundro; Johanna, Michael, Kimberly, Patrick,
20 and Samantha Carlin; her two great-grandchildren, Anne McCabe
21 and Jonas Gregory; her step great-grandchild, MaKenna Carlin;
22 and numerous cousins and many dear friends; therefore, be it
 
23     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL

 

 

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1 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
2 her family and friends, the passing of Margaret D. Horrigan;
3 and be it further
 
4     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
5 presented to the family of Margaret D. Horrigan as a symbol of
6 our sincere sympathy.