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HOUSE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of 
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Representatives are pleased to congratulate Margit C. Bourelle 
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on the occasion of her 80th birthday on May 5, 2009; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Margit Bourelle was born on May 5, 1929 to Swedish 
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immigrants Ida Carlson and Gustav Carlson; she was raised on 
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the northwest side of Chicago; she attended McPherson Grammar 
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School and Amundsen High School; at age 14, while attending 
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Amundsen High School, she started working at a bakery in her 
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neighborhood, working there until she graduated from Amundsen 
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in 1947; and

 
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    WHEREAS, After graduation, Margit Bourelle began working 
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full time for the United States Department of the Treasury as a 
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secretary; between 1949 and 1952, while working full-time, she 
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belonged to the Four Hundred Club at the Aragon Ballroom, where 
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she taught ballroom dancing two nights a week; during this 
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time, she met her future husband, Berwyn Bourelle; they fell in 
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love and were married on August 30, 1952; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Margit Bourelle and her husband started their 
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lives together in a one bedroom apartment at 5543 N. Marmora 
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for 4 years, until their first son Franklin was born in 1956; 
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the couple then moved to a 2-bedroom apartment at 5807 Elston 
 


 






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Avenue where, 2 years later, they were blessed with twin girls 
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Doreen and Marlene; the family resided on Elston Avenue for 10 
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years until August of 1967, when the couple purchased their 
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first home, a 4-bedroom brick bungalow on 5837 Marmora Avenue; 
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and

 
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    WHEREAS, Margit Bourelle is the loving grandmother of 
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Alicia, Angela, Marena, Valerie, Tatianna, Bryanna, and 
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Serena; therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 
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NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we 
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congratulate Margit C. Bourelle on the occasion of her 80th 
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birthday and wish her many happy and healthy years to come; and 
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be it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to Margit Bourelle as a symbol of our esteem and 
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respect.