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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois wish to honor Harriet Dorothea (Zorn)
4 Scharringhausen of Arlington Heights on the occasion of her
5 100th birthday on August 14, 2006; and
 
6     WHEREAS, She was born on August 14, 1906, in the Lakeview
7 area of Chicago; she attended Coonley Elementary School and
8 Lakeview High School; she took courses at Chicago Teacher's
9 College and taught elementary school in Park Ridge, Des
10 Plaines, and Hammond, Indiana; and
 
11     WHEREAS, She grew up with her neighbor, George L.
12 Scharringhausen, Jr., the son of a pharmacist; they dated
13 throughout high school and were married on July 6, 1929; she
14 worked in her father-in-law's pharmacy alongside her husband
15 until his passing in 1989; and
 
16     WHEREAS, She was active in the Park Ridge community and at
17 her church, Redeemer Lutheran, of which she and her husband
18 were charter members; and
 
19     WHEREAS, She moved to Luther Village, a retirement
20 community in Arlington Heights, in 1998; she now lives at
21 Hearthstone, a minimal assisted living facility at the Lutheran
22 Home in Arlington Heights; therefore, be it
 
23     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
24 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
25 we congratulate Harriet Dorothea (Zorn) Scharringhausen on the
26 occasion of her 100th birthday, and we wish her many more happy
27 birthdays; and be it further
 
28     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
29 presented to Mrs. Scharringhausen as an expression of our

 

 

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