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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 Eloy Cueto of Troy, who passed away on |
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| March 19, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Eloy Menendez Cueto was born on July 18, 1923, in |
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| East St. Louis; he went to Hawthorne grade school and Lansdowne |
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| Junior High School in East St. Louis; he was the president and |
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| valedictorian of the East St. Louis Senior High School class of |
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| 1941; Eloy was the son of Amelio and Alicia Cueto, both of whom |
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| had been born in Asturias, Spain; and
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| WHEREAS, After high school, Eloy went first to the Rolla |
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| School of Mines and Metallurgy, then into the United States |
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| Navy in World War II; he was an officer aboard the Rinehart, a |
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| destroyer escort, serving in the South Pacific; after World War |
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| II, he finished his degree in Metallurgy at Rolla; and
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| WHEREAS, He worked first at American Zinc Works in Fairmont |
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| City and later he worked for 32 years at Granite City Steel; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Throughout his life Eloy was an athlete; he played |
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| baseball in the Fountain of Youth League in East St. Louis, and |
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| he was an avid golfer, playing until the onset of illness; Eloy |
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| was proud of his service to his country in time of war, proud |
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| of being a second generation Spaniard, proud of being from East |
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| St. Louis, but most of all, he was proud of his large and |
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| loving family; and
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| WHEREAS, He married Louise Peterson on May 1, 1948 and she |
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| preceded him in death; he was also preceded in death by his |
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| parents, Amelio and Alicia, nee Menendez, Cueto; his brother, |
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| Julius "Hank;" and his son-in-law, David Hartlein; and
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| WHEREAS, Eloy Cueto is survived by his five children, Amiel |
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| (Elaine), Lloyd (Patti), Maria, Christopher (Rebecca), and |
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| David; his grandchildren, Kara (Roger) Osthoff, S. Sgt. Gregory |
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| (Chasity) Cueto, Lloyd M. Cueto, Johanna Hartlein, Rebecca |
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| (Adam) Severit, Dane (Monica) Hartlein, Emma Cueto, and Sarah |
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| Cueto; his great-grandchildren, David and Cecilia Osthoff, |
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| Nathaniel and Allysia Severit, Elena Toth, and Paul Amiel |
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| Cueto; and his sister, Inez Bratton; 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 Eloy Cueto; and be it |
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| further
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| RESOLVED, That That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to the family of Eloy Cueto as a symbol of our |