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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to extend
3 their condolences to the family and friends of Phyllis Sutker,
4 of Skokie, Illinois, who passed away on November 13, 2006; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Phyllis Sutker was born in Chicago, Illinois; she
6 graduated from Austin High School and Wright Junior College
7 before receiving her Bachelor's and Master's degree in social
8 work from the University of Chicago; she was a member of Phi
9 Beta Kappa; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Mrs. Sutker met her husband during their senior
11 year of high school, and they were married in 1946; they moved
12 to Skokie in 1958; and
 
13     WHEREAS, In the 1950's Mrs. Sutker joined Na'amat, which
14 supports women's and children's issues in Israel; she went on
15 to become its national president between 1981 and 1985; at the
16 time of her passing she was a member of the Na'amat USA
17 advisory board and of its Chicago Council; she represented the
18 group in the Labor Zionist Movement and on committees and
19 boards of the major Jewish organizations in Chicago; and
 
20     WHEREAS, Mrs. Sutker was deeply involved in the Zionist
21 movement; she was a national vice president of the American
22 Zionist Movement and served on its Chicago region board; she
23 also served as an elected member of the executive of the World
24 Zionist Organization in the 1980s and 1990s and was elected as
25 one of its honorary fellows in 1997; she was a delegate to six
26 world Zionist Congresses; she was on the Board of Governors of
27 the Jewish Agency between 1983 and 1992; and
 
28     WHEREAS, She was honored in 1988 by Israel Bonds of Chicago
29 as a "Woman of Achievement"; working with these organizations
30 and with Na'amat often sent her to Israel, where she befriended

 

 

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1 Leah Rabin, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister
2 Yitzchak Rabin; another friend was former Israeli Prime
3 Minister Shimon Peres; and
 
4     WHEREAS, Phyllis Sutker was preceded in death by her son,
5 Edward, and her brother, David; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Phyllis Sutker was the beloved wife of Calvin R.
7 Sutker; the devoted mother of Sharon Sutker McGowan (Jim
8 McGowan), Shelley Sutker-Dermer (Kenneth Dermer), Edie Sue
9 Sutker (fiance, David Richmond), and Allen (Karen) Sutker; the
10 loving grandmother of Jennifer and Joshua McGowan, Elana and
11 Jake Dermer, and Danielle, Nicole, Tommy, and Teddy Sutker; the
12 beloved sister-in-law of Marsha Kline, Irwin (Carla) Sutker,
13 and Ada (Beryl) Rabinowitz; the step-sister of Lloyd (Grace)
14 Kline; and is fondly remembered by many nieces, nephews,
15 cousins, and friends; therefore, be it
 
16     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL
17 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
18 her family and friends, the death of Phyllis Sutker; and be it
19 further
 
20     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
21 presented to the family of Phyllis Sutker.