Full Text of SR0028 96th General Assembly
SR0028 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Mary Murphy Bitto of Wildwood, who passed | 4 |
| away on December 14, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Murphy Bitto was born on July 28, 1931 in | 6 |
| Hannibal, Missouri; her parents were James John Murphy and | 7 |
| Genevieve Gatson Murphy; she moved with her family to Chicago | 8 |
| in 1936, where she attended parochial schools and graduated | 9 |
| from Providence High School in 1948; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Murphy Bitto was married to Louis H. Bitto on | 11 |
| May 28, 1949; during their 53 years of marriage, Mary and her | 12 |
| husband set an example for their 12 children and many | 13 |
| grandchildren, showing that love, family, and friends were more | 14 |
| important than material things; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Murphy Bitto was an avid reader, combining | 16 |
| her devotion to children and her love of books in her volunteer | 17 |
| work in the reading department at Prairie View Elementary | 18 |
| School in Grayslake; for more than five years, she tutored | 19 |
| individual students and read to entire classrooms nearly every | 20 |
| day as part of the Foster Grandparents Program; she was | 21 |
| affectionately called "Grandma Mary" by the teachers and | 22 |
| students at Prairie View; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Murphy Bitto had lived in Wildwood since 1956 | 2 |
| and was a longtime member of St. Gilbert Catholic Church; and | 3 |
| WHEREAS, Mary Murphy Bitto was preceded in death by her | 4 |
| husband, Louis H. Bitto; her daughter, Louise Bitto Long; her | 5 |
| parents; and her brothers, James Murphy and Joseph Murphy; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Murphy Bitto is survived by her sister, Joan | 7 |
| Hacker; her brothers, Robert Eugene Murphy, Fr. John Murphy, | 8 |
| S.J.; her daughter, Christine (Michael Bogdala) Bitto; her | 9 |
| sons, Louis Anthony (Linda), Ronald (Constance), Thomas | 10 |
| (Doreen), Steven (Maureen), Michael (Patricia), Mark (Carol), | 11 |
| Matthew, Andrew (Katherine), Mitchell (Barbara), and Alexander | 12 |
| (Kelly); her grandchildren, Sarah Murray, Zachary Long, Lee | 13 |
| Johnston, Benjamin, Nicholas, Tracy, Mark, Joseph, Corynn, | 14 |
| Claire, Evan, Andrew, Gabriel, Cody, Ryan, Jaclyn, Madeline, | 15 |
| Peter, Jack, and Abigail Bitto, Todd Doyle, David, Steve, and | 16 |
| Kim Mueller, and Michael and Christopher Koziol; and her | 17 |
| great-grandchildren, Addison Bitto, Donovan Doyle, Eric Russ, | 18 |
| and Megan, Devin, and Kayleigh Mueller; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 20 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 21 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Mary Murphy Bitto; and | 22 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of Mary Murphy Bitto as an expression | 3 |
| of our sympathy.
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