Full Text of SR1884 099th 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 Maxine V. Kempf of Crystal Lake, who | 4 | | passed away on February 10, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Maxine Kempf was born in Edmore, North Dakota to | 6 | | Carl and Bessie Benson on September 11, 1914; she attended | 7 | | Jamestown College in North Dakota on a music scholarship with a | 8 | | concentration in English literature and music; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Maxine Kempf began teaching in North Dakota high | 10 | | schools as an English and music instructor; following World War | 11 | | II, she and her husband, Adolph, moved to Chicago; in 1950, she | 12 | | and her husband and their two children moved to Des Plaines and | 13 | | then to Crystal Lake, where she lived for 66 years; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Maxine Kempf renewed her teaching career and began | 15 | | a 24-year career with the Crystal Lake Public Schools, where | 16 | | she taught language arts and developed special expertise in the | 17 | | teaching of literacy and reading; she earned a master's degree | 18 | | in Reading Education at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb; | 19 | | for the last half of her career, she served outside the | 20 | | classroom as the Crystal Lake School District Curriculum | 21 | | Coordinator and Language Arts Specialist in teacher training, | 22 | | diagnostic evaluator of student reading problems, and as an |
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| 1 | | assistant to her lifelong friend, Leon Lundahl, who served as | 2 | | school superintendent; she also served as piano accompanist to | 3 | | several young school musicians; in addition to her teaching and | 4 | | administrative work, she served for a number of years as an | 5 | | adjunct professor at the National College of Education in | 6 | | Evanston and at Northern Illinois University; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, For 50 years, Maxine Kempf belonged to the Delta | 8 | | Kappa Gamma honorary education Society; she was a longtime | 9 | | member of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association and the PEO | 10 | | Sisterhood; she was a 60-year member of the First United | 11 | | Methodist Church of Crystal Lake, and when younger, she was the | 12 | | church organist and music director; after retirement, she | 13 | | served for a number of years as a board member of the Crystal | 14 | | Lake YMCA and the American Heart Association; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Maxine Kempf is survived by her two children, Ann | 16 | | Dahm and James (Tomoko) Kempf; her four grandchildren, Matthew | 17 | | (Christine) Dahm, Mandy Dahm, Kathryn Kempf (Dan) Burke, | 18 | | Michael (Emma) Kempf; and her four great-grandchildren, | 19 | | Lleyton and Caroline Dahm and Jackson and Dillon Burke; | 20 | | therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 22 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 23 | | Maxine V. Kempf, and extend our sincere condolences to her |
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| 1 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 2 | | further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the family of Maxine Kempf as an expression of our | 5 | | deepest sympathy.
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