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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Donna L. (nee Bost) Cervini of Oak Park,
4who passed away on March 25, 2014; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Donna Cervini was born in Pittsburgh,
6Pennsylvania; she attended Wheeling Jesuit University in
7Wheeling, West Virginia and worked as an elementary school
8teacher; she married Lawrence Cervini and they settled in Oak
9Park in 1967; in 1971, she began attending Northwestern
10University Law School, graduating in 1975; and
 
11    WHEREAS, Following graduation, Donna Cervini worked for
12the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation and in
13private practice; in 1985, she was appointed an Associate Judge
14of the Circuit Court of Cook County, retiring in 2002; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Donna Cervini devoted much of her time to
16charitable and community service, including the Pittsburgh
17Catholic Interracial Counsel, the Oak Park Housing Center, the
18Oak Park-River Forest Citizens Committee for Human Rights, the
19St. Giles Family Mass Community, the Lawyers' Assistance
20Program, which she co-founded and served as chair for 14 years,
21the Illinois Child Death Review, the American Bar Association
22Commission for the Impaired Attorney, the Oak Park Police and

 

 

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1Fire Commission, and International Women Associates of Chicago
2(2000-2004); she also volunteered with the West Suburban PADS
3Shelter in Oak Park; and
 
4    WHEREAS, Donna Cervini marched for Civil Rights,
5participated in the anti-apartheid movement for South Africa,
6and was a draft counselor against the Vietnam War; and
 
7    WHEREAS, Donna Cervini loved to travel; she was an avid
8snow skier and scuba diver with hundreds of dives all over the
9world; and
 
10    WHEREAS, Donna Cervini was the former spouse of the late
11Lawrence A. Cervini; the loving mother of Cynthia E. Cervini
12and Christine C. (Joe) Wong; the daughter of the late Mary
13Ellen (nee McDermott) and the late John William Bost; the
14sister of Joanne (Steve) Halle, Mary (Mike) Silbaugh, Faith
15(Alan) Katchmar, Jim (Jackie) Connolly, Carol (Gary)
16Ostrander, and Nancy Makela; the proud grandmother of Drew,
17Siena, and Stephen Wong; the aunt of Matthew (Michelle) and
18Joshua Heckel; the longtime friend of Paul Moroney and his
19family; and many more; therefore, be it
 
20    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL
21ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
22Donna L. Cervini, and extend our sincere condolences to her

 

 

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1family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it
2further
 
3    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
4presented to the family and friends of Donna Cervini as an
5expression of our deepest sympathy.