Full Text of SR1036 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of
Patricia Hoglund-Michaels, who passed | 4 | | away on October 28, 2010; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Patricia Hoglund-Michaels lived in Riverside | 6 | | since childhood; she attended Central School, Riverside Junior | 7 | | High School, and was a 1938 graduate of Riverside-Brookfield | 8 | | High School, where she served as Student Council President | 9 | | during her senior year; she subsequently attending the National | 10 | | College of Education in Evanston, where she earned her degree | 11 | | in education in 1942; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Patricia Hoglund-Michaels taught second grade in | 13 | | Oak Park for several years; in 1944, she married John Hoglund, | 14 | | a 1938 graduate of Riverside-Brookfield High School whom she | 15 | | had known since junior high school; together, they raised 3 | 16 | | children in Riverside, Anne, Steven, and Mark; John Hoglund | 17 | | passed away in 1983, 3 months before their 40th wedding | 18 | | anniversary; in 1984, she married Earl Michaels ("Mike"), also | 19 | | a 1938 graduate of Riverside-Brookfield High School; Mike | 20 | | passed away in 1996; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Patricia Hoglund-Michaels was prominent in local, | 22 | | county, and statewide Republican Party activities during the |
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| 1 | | 1960s and 1970s; in the early 1960s, she was instrumental in | 2 | | establishing Riverside's Republican Headquarters in order to | 3 | | publicize and promote Republican candidates for offices at all | 4 | | levels of government; from 1964 to 1974, she served as | 5 | | Riverside Township's Republican Committeewoman, where she | 6 | | worked with the Township Committeeman to organize local | 7 | | Republican programs and activities and worked with fellow | 8 | | Committeewomen from other communities in Cook County; in 1968, | 9 | | she was appointed to serve as Vice Chairwoman of the Women's | 10 | | Division of the Republican Central Committee; in 1972, she | 11 | | became Chairwoman of the Women's Division; in 1974, she was | 12 | | elected to be Riverside Township Republican Committeeman, | 13 | | where she served until 1982; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Patricia Hoglund-Michaels was a member of the | 15 | | Riverside Garden Club for many years; she was active in | 16 | | Riverside Infant Welfare, the Fortnightly Club, and the | 17 | | Riverside Lions Club; from 1993 to 2005, she derived particular | 18 | | pleasure from serving as a volunteer in the library at Blythe | 19 | | Park School in Riverside, where she read stories to 1st, 2nd, | 20 | | and 3rd grade children; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Patricia Hoglund-Michaels was well known among | 22 | | her peers for her considerable artistic talents; during the | 23 | | 1960s, her medium was oil painting; in the 1970s, she | 24 | | completely re-decorated the dollhouse that her daughter had |
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| 1 | | outgrown and created a number of shadow box displays for her | 2 | | family and friends; she recently created drawings and paintings | 3 | | with colored pencils and watercolors; she still attended weekly | 4 | | oil painting classes in Riverside at the time of her passing; | 5 | | and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Patricia Hoglund-Michaels is survived by her | 7 | | children, Steven, Anne (Berardo) DeSimone, and Mark; her | 8 | | grandsons, Jared Hoglund, Aaron Hoglund, and Todd (Anne Marie) | 9 | | DeSimone; her nephew, Robert Price; and the many friends and | 10 | | acquaintances she made during her years in Riverside; | 11 | | therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 13 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 14 | | her family and friends, the passing of Patricia | 15 | | Hoglund-Michaels; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to the family of Patricia Hoglund-Michaels as an | 18 | | expression of our sympathy.
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