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