Full Text of SR0081 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Charlotte Maris Wax of Newman, who | 4 | | passed away on December 18, 2022 at the age of 103; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Charlotte Wax was born in Tuscola on February 27, | 6 | | 1919 and graduated from the University of Illinois; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Along with work on the family farm in Newman | 8 | | raising corn, soybeans, Duroc hogs, and Shorthorn cattle, | 9 | | Charlotte Wax taught business at the high school in Tuscola; | 10 | | and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Charlotte Wax was a lifelong member of the Newman | 12 | | Methodist Church, where she served as a Sunday school teacher | 13 | | and Methodist Woman member; she was active in the Newman | 14 | | Woman's Club, serving as a 50-year member; she was still a | 15 | | devoted 49-year member of the Stephen A. Douglas Chapter of | 16 | | the Daughters of the American Revolution, where she had served | 17 | | as Regent and Honorary Regent; she was a long time 4-H leader | 18 | | with the Newman Kum-Joy-Nus 4-H Club, and she started the | 19 | | Buttons n Bows Home Economics Club for sewing and food | 20 | | projects; she also chaperoned the dorms for many years at the | 21 | | Illinois State Fair; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Charlotte Wax was the Illinois Future Homemakers | 2 | | of America Chapter Mother in 1969 and was selected as | 3 | | Illinoisan of the Day at the Illinois State Fair in 2018; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Charlotte Wax enjoyed genealogy, reading, playing | 5 | | euchre, watching Illini sports, and spoiling her ten | 6 | | grandchildren and 25 plus great-grandchildren; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Charlotte Wax was preceded in death by her | 8 | | husband of 43 years, Ray Wax, and her parents, Ward and Zala | 9 | | Maris; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Charlotte Wax is survived by her sons, Wallace | 11 | | (Becky) and Richard (Carol); her daughter, Martha (Robert); | 12 | | her grandchildren, Deborah Holifield, Kimberly Rund, Michael | 13 | | Wax, Andrea Gallagher, Katharine Sherman, David Wax, Andrew | 14 | | Wax, Kristina Milburn, Roberta Lower, and Scott Burris; and | 15 | | her great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
| 18 | | Charlotte Maris Wax and extend our sincere
condolences to her | 19 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved
her; and be it | 20 | | further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
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| 1 | | presented to the family of Charlotte Wax as an expression of
| 2 | | our deepest sympathy.
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