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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Helen Rose Kessler of Bethalto, who
4 passed away on January 7, 2009; and
 
5     WHEREAS, She was born on January 27, 1917, in Pueblo,
6 Colorado, the daughter of Rufus E. and Helen M. (Woods) Craig;
7 she married Joseph D. Kessler on May 26, 1934 in Salem; and
 
8     WHEREAS, She worked at Bethalto High School for 12 years
9 and at Frankie's Sewing and Alteration at Wilshire Village in
10 East Alton; she was a member of Resurrection Lutheran Church in
11 Godfrey, a Sunday school teacher and choir member at Concordia
12 Lutheran Church in Cottage Hills, and had been a member of
13 Senior Citizens and Tops Club in Bethalto since 1972; and
 
14     WHEREAS, Helen Kessler was preceded in death by her
15 husband, Joseph; her parents; her three sons, Jon, Joseph, and
16 James; and her two brothers, Kenneth and Ned Craig; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Helen Kessler is survived by her daughters, Anna
18 B. Shaw and Beverly J. Miller; her sons and daughters-in-law,
19 Gary D. and Janice Kessler and Phillip E. and Deborah Kessler;
20 her grandchildren, Joseph N. Kessler, Maria Dalton, Shari
21 Yates, Cynthia Cervera, Jon Kessler, Joseph D. Kessler, Alissa

 

 

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1 Dawson, Cory Kessler, and Rayna Kessler; her nine
2 great-grandchildren; her daughter-in-law, Judith Kessler; and
3 her sister, Martha J. Wiegel; therefore, be it
 
4     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
5 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
6 her family and friends, the passing of Helen Rose Kessler; and
7 be it further
 
8     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
9 presented to the family of Helen Rose Kessler as a symbol of
10 our sincere sympathy.