Full Text of HR0823 93rd General Assembly
HR0823 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate the Hitzeman | 4 |
| Funeral Home Ltd. on the occasion of its 100th anniversary; and
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| WHEREAS, The Hitzeman Funeral Home Ltd. has been serving | 6 |
| the residents of Chicago and the western suburbs with care, | 7 |
| compassion, and consideration since 1904; the Hitzeman name is | 8 |
| known throughout the Chicagoland community, not only for its | 9 |
| reputation of dignified service to people in grieving times, | 10 |
| but also for its community service and dedication to others; | 11 |
| the Hitzeman family is involved with area churches and schools | 12 |
| as well as the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce and the | 13 |
| Brookfield/LaGrange Park Lions Club; and
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| WHEREAS, Frederick H. Hitzeman came to the United States | 15 |
| from Germany as a child in 1882; in 1894, he married Pauline | 16 |
| Pechat, and in 1904, he started the Undertaking Business at | 17 |
| Keeler and 26th Street in Chicago; he used his home as his | 18 |
| chapel and horses and carriages were used for the funerals; in | 19 |
| 1916, when they began using automobiles, Charles R. Hitzeman, | 20 |
| the third child of Pauline and Frederick, drove the hearse; | 21 |
| Charles became a partner in the business in 1928; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1945, Frederick received the deed for the | 23 |
| property in Brookfield that currently houses the business; in | 24 |
| 1963, Norbert Hitzeman, the third generation to own the | 25 |
| business, opened the Hitzeman Funeral Home location in | 26 |
| Brookfield; for the next 13 years, the business maintained two | 27 |
| locations; in 1976, the location on 26th Street was sold; and
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| WHEREAS, In the fall of 1984, Norbert Hitzeman purchased | 29 |
| Hitzeman Funeral Home, P.C., from his father; in 1992, the name | 30 |
| of the business was changed to Hitzeman Funeral Home, Ltd., as | 31 |
| it was now a limited corporation; on September 18, 1995, Todd |
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| Hitzeman bought the business from Norbert Hitzeman, making him | 2 |
| the fourth generation of Hitzemans to run the business; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2002, Charles T. "Chuck" Hitzeman graduated | 4 |
| from the Worsham School of Mortuary Science in Wheeling, | 5 |
| becoming the fifth generation of funeral directors in the | 6 |
| Hitzeman family; in addition, he's the fifth generation of | 7 |
| Lions Club members and was recently elected president of the | 8 |
| Brookfield/LaGrange Park Lions Club; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 11 |
| congratulate the Hitzeman Funeral Home, Ltd. of Brookfield on | 12 |
| the occasion of its 100th anniversary; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the Hitzeman Funeral Home, Ltd. as an expression | 15 |
| of our respect and esteem.
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