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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Phyllis J. Bogdan of Joliet, who passed
4away on April 20, 2017; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Phyllis Bogdan was born in Joliet to Esther Fields
6and William T. Davies on May 16, 1928 and married Eugene I.
7Bogdan after high school; and
 
8    WHEREAS, Phyllis Bogdan supported her husband in The Farm
9Shop, the Holiday Inns, the Magic Palace, and the Joliet Area
10Historical Society; and
 
11    WHEREAS, Phyllis Bogdan loved music and learning the piano
12from her mother; she took the train back and forth from the age
13of 12 to the Conservatory of Music in Joliet and in Chicago
14where she learned the violin; she played violin in the Joliet
15Grade School Orchestra, the Joliet Township High School
16Orchestra, the Kiwanis Shows, and the New People; she sang at
17the Joliet Correctional Center; she was the soloist at the
18Christian Scientist Church and directed the youth choir at
19Richards Street United Methodist Church; and
 
20    WHEREAS, Phyllis Bogdan was preceded in death by her
21husband of 61 years, Eugene; her parents; her sister, Betty

 

 

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1(Cameron) Dystrup; and her brother, Donald (Bette) Davies; and
 
2    WHEREAS, Phyllis Bogdan is survived by her children, Linda
3(Gary) Trager and David (Connie) Bogdan; her grandchildren,
4Jeremy Trager, Talia (Ryan) Hauser, Amy Trager, Jeff (Jenni)
5Bogdan, Greg (Rebecca) Bogdan, Sheri (Rev. Matt) Harris, Keegan
6and Kellen Bogdan, Matt and Kyle Casillas, and Allison (Marc)
7Silverman; her great-grandchildren, Cori and Justin Bogdan,
8Macey, Kylee, Elijah, Jaden, Liberty, Judah, Matty, Jacob,
9Noah, and Max Bogdan, Sam and Debbie Lawlor, Evan, Emmerson,
10Adysen and Gabriel Harris, Andrew Hauser, and Mason and Braxton
11Silverman; her sisters-in-law, Lonia Baranowski and Maggie
12Bogdan; her nieces and nephews, Johanna (LaVerne) Spencer, Lew
13Davies, Wade Clausing, Carolyn Dystrup, Barb Dystrup, Suzanne
14(Jim) Reinhart, Tom (Susie) Baranowski, Jeanne (Tim) Mahoney,
15Tom (Marsha) Bogdan, Libby (Bill) Lovis, Mary Bogdan-Hensold,
16and Michael and Kathy Bogdan; her cousin, Mary Lou Cookas; her
17dear friends, Chita Santorineos, Fran Macris, Ron Nelson, Joan
18and John Sullivan, Mary Jane Egbert, and Mary Ellen Hillman;
19and the "Lunch Bunch"; therefore, be it
 
20    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL
21ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
22Phyllis J. Bogdan, and extend our sincere condolences to her
23family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it
24further
 

 

 

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1    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
2presented to the family of Phyllis Bogdan as an expression of
3our deepest sympathy.