Full Text of SR1076 99th 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 Alexis Ann Wernsing of Litchfield, who | 4 | | passed away on October 1, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Alexis Wernsing was born in Litchfield on May 10, | 6 | | 1975 to Edwin "Big Ed" and Patricia (nee Beeler) Wernsing; she | 7 | | attended Zion Lutheran School and graduated from Litchfield | 8 | | High School in May of 1994; she graduated from Lincoln Land | 9 | | Community College in May of 2011 with an Associate in Arts | 10 | | degree with honors and was commencement speaker for her | 11 | | graduating class; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Alexis Wernsing most recently attended the | 13 | | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was | 14 | | pursuing a degree in art history; she had been a resident of | 15 | | Nugent Hall there for the past 4 years and served on the | 16 | | Director's Student Advisory Council at Beckwith Residential | 17 | | Support Services; she received the Chez Family Foundation | 18 | | Scholarship for the past 2 years and the Urbana-Champaign | 19 | | Business Women's Club Scholarship; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Alexis Wernsing student taught at Lincoln Land | 21 | | Community College for the past 3 summers and was a teaching | 22 | | assistant for Dr. Deana McDonagh on the U of I campus; most |
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| 1 | | recently, they were working to design and build a voice | 2 | | amplifying system called AmpliMy that received a $10,000 | 3 | | Illinois Proof-of-Concept award from the U of I Office of | 4 | | Technology Management; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Alexis Wernsing enjoyed friends and Facebook and | 6 | | communicating by texting; she was close to her 2 nephews and | 7 | | enjoyed playing Uno with them; her favorite pet was Heinrich, | 8 | | her dachshund, who frequently sat on her lap and rode on the | 9 | | Weiner taxi; she was a fan of the St. Louis Blues Hockey team, | 10 | | frequently attending games with her family; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Alexis Wernsing was a member of Grace Evangelical | 12 | | Lutheran Church in Litchfield, where she was active in the | 13 | | Ladies Aid group; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Alexis Wernsing was preceded in death by her | 15 | | maternal grandfather, Ralph Beeler, and her paternal | 16 | | grandparents, Burrell and Melvina Wernsing; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Alexis Wernsing is survived by her parents; her | 18 | | brother, Doug (Michelle, nee Leefers); her nephews, Landon Paul | 19 | | and Carter Dean Wernsing; her grandmother, Lucille (Gronewald) | 20 | | Beeler; her godparents, Darrel and Karen Wernsing; and many | 21 | | aunts, uncles, and cousins; she also considered her friends at | 22 | | LLCC in Springfield and at U of I at Urbana-Champaign to be her |
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| 1 | | family; therefore, be it
| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 3 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 4 | | Alexis Ann Wernsing, and extend our sincere condolences to her | 5 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 6 | | further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to the family of Alexis Wernsing as an expression of | 9 | | our deepest sympathy.
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