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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
3learn of the death of  Mariclare Barrett of Oak Park, who passed 
4away on September 4, 2015; and
  
 
5    WHEREAS, Mariclare Barrett was born on July 2, 1951 in 
6Berwyn; her parents were Mary and Wendell Barrett; and
  
 
7    WHEREAS, Mariclare Barrett graduated from Nazareth High 
8School and earned her Bachelor of Arts at Michigan State 
9University in 1973; in 1978, she became a physician assistant 
10through Johns Hopkins University; in 1999, she joined Rosalind 
11Franklin University as an assistant professor in the Physician 
12Assistant Department and went on to teach a variety of 
13subjects, including her favorite, "The Psychosocial Aspects of 
14Patient Care", where she taught students to communicate about 
15illness and mortality by sharing her own ongoing experience 
16with stage-four breast cancer; and
  
 
17    WHEREAS, Mariclare Barrett was the proud mother of six 
18sons; she was a gifted storyteller who loved regaling friends 
19with the antics and successes of her boys and her many wild but 
20true tales about sideswiping President Bill Clinton's car, 
21talking Charlie Trotter into catering a meal at her home, and 
22serving vegetarian "ribs" at Mike Royko's annual Ribfest; she 
 
 
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1was also a freelance food writer under the name "Clare Obis" 
2for Wednesday Journal in the 1980s and 1990s; and

  
 
3    WHEREAS, Mariclare Barrett is survived by her sons, 
4Nicholas Hanuman, Quentin Barrett, Paul Wendell, Kevin 
5Michael, Timothy Edward, and Gregory Patrick; her grandson, 
6Yasan; her siblings, Barrie Jean, Terry, Rorie, and Kevin; her 
7niece, Emily; her nephews, Nathan and Jesse; her several 
8grand-nieces and grand-nephews; her many friends and 
9colleagues at Rosalind Franklin and Northwestern Universities 
10and St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Edmund Parishes; and her 
11girlfriends, "The Crazies", with whom she shared a 35-year 
12friendship; therefore, be it
  
 
13    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL 
14ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with her 
15family and friends, mourn the passing of Mariclare Barrett; and 
16be it further
  
 
17    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
18presented to the family of Mariclare Barrett as an expression 
19of our sympathy.