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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 Jesus Gabriel Martinez of Chatham, |
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| formerly of Springfield, who passed away on February 21, 2009; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, He was born March 24, 1932, in Havana, Cuba, to |
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| Bernandino and Berta Storch Martinez; in 1959 he married Carman |
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| O. Casanova in Havana; he graduated from the University of |
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| Havana with a degree in accounting and worked for the Cuban |
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| government as a CPA prior to it becoming a communist country; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, After the Cuban revolution in 1962, Jesus was able |
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| to immigrate to the United States, where he joined the United |
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| States Army; during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was stationed |
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| at Fort Jackson, South Carolina; when Carman was able to |
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| emigrate from Cuba, they lived in Florida temporarily; and
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| WHEREAS, Due to political unrest and unavailability of his |
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| educational documents, Jesus chose to attend Indiana State |
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| University in Terre Haute where he earned his B.A. in |
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| Education; following his graduation, he and his wife moved to |
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| Springfield where, at Jefferson Middle School, he began his |
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| 30-year Spanish teaching career with Springfield School |
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| District #186; he also worked for H & R Block; and
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| WHEREAS, During his years of teaching, he lived in |
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| Springfield and was a member of the Douglas Avenue Methodist |
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| Church as well as El Groupo Latino, for which he played the |
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| bongo drums; using his training in the United States Army, he |
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| enjoyed fixing things; upon retiring in 1995, he moved to |
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| Chatham and became a member of Chatham United Methodist Church; |
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| throughout his life, he enjoyed his family, listening to music, |
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| dancing, going to the beach with family, and looking forward to |
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| cooking his traditional lechon assado (roast pork) every |
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| Christmas; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife, Carman; his |
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| brother, Raul; and his sister, Edilia; and
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| WHEREAS, Jesus Martinez is survived by his daughters, Patty |
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| (Bob) Lanser and Ivonne Martinez (husband, Tsen Chung Kang); |
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| his grandchildren, Haley, Olivia, Sophie, Jack, Christopher, |
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| Jonathan, and Emily to whom he was known as abuelo (grandfather |
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| in Spanish); and his sister, Berta; 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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| his family and friends, the passing of Jesus Martinez; and be |
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| it further
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