SR0137 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to learn of the death of Mary A. Schickel of Loveland, Ohio, who passed away on April 7, 2007; and

WHEREAS, She was born Mary Alice Frei, a daughter of a family of German-American stained-glass artists, who grew up in St. Louis, where her father, Emil Frei, immigrated from Munich, Germany; the Frei family had been stained-glass artists there for several generations; and

WHEREAS, As a young woman in the 1940s, she embraced the Grail, an international women's movement that envisions a world of peace, justice and renewal of the earth; she attended the Grailville Year School of Apostolate and, after marrying William Schickel in 1947, they moved to a farm in Loveland near Grailville, the National Grail office; and

WHEREAS, In 1969, Mrs. Schickel and her husband purchased and restored a B & O Railroad depot in Loveland that dated to 1907; they ran it as a community art center for a number of years; their project was the beginning of the restoration of historic Loveland; and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Schickel loved liturgical music and was a vocalist; and

WHEREAS, The passing of Mary Schickel will be deeply felt by all who knew and loved her, especially her husband, William; her daughters, Martha Dorff, Anna (Illinois State Senator William) Haine, Elizabeth Robinson, Mary Moorman, Ruth Tabeling, and Joy France; her sons, Bill Schickel, John Schickel, Joseph Schickel, Benedict Schickel, and Martin Schickel; her brothers, Dr. Emil Frei and Robert Frei; her 32 grandchildren; and her 15 great-grandchildren; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with all her family and friends, the passing of Mary A. Schickel; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Mary A. Schickel as a symbol of our sincere sympathy.