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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 Edward P. Morrissey of Chicago, who 
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passed away on August 2, 2009; and

 
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    WHEREAS,  He was a 1961 graduate of Loyola Academy in 
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Wilmette, where he distinguished himself as an all around 
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student and athlete and co-captain of the football team; at age 
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eighteen, right after high school, he joined the Jesuit Society 
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of Jesus from 1961 to 1968; during his time in the Jesuit 
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seminary at Milford, Ohio, he obtained a bachelor degree in 
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Classics (Latin and Greek) and he taught English and Sociology 
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at St. Xavier High School and coached soccer; and

 
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    WHEREAS, He graduated from Boston College in 1967 with a 
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degree in Philosophy; he received his Juris Doctor in 1974 from 
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Creighton University Law School in Omaha, Nebraska; he 
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practiced law in Elmhurst and was a Cook County Assistant 
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State's Attorney before marrying Elsie (Campbell) in 1984; he 
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practiced family law in Sandwich for 22 years and will be 
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remembered as an honest, hard working lawyer; and

 
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    WHEREAS, In 1994, he ran for Circuit Court Judge for the 
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16th Judicial Circuit and for De Kalb County State's Attorney 
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in 1996; in 2006, he made a career change to teach Latin at 
 


 






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Aurora Central Catholic High School; and

 
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    WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents, Dennis J. 
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and Margaret (Scott) Morrissey, and his brother, John 
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(Georgann) Morrissey; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Edward Morrissey leaves his beloved wife of 25 
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years, Elsie (Campbell); his children, Carrie (John) Libetti, 
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Clete Campbell, Clayton Campbell, Paul, Dorothy, and Laura 
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Morrissey; his wife's nephew, Paul Sipes; his four siblings, 
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Mary (Robert) Moroney, Joseph (Joan) Morrissey, Dennis (Helen) 
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Morrissey, and Richard (Althea) Morrissey; 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 Edward Morrissey; and be 
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it further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of Edward Morrissey as a symbol of our 
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sincere sympathy.