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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Freda
4Aron; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Freda Aron was born in Brooklyn, New York, in
61915; and
 
7    WHEREAS, At the age of 21, Freda Aron moved to Chicago to
8attend nursing school; while there, she met and married her
9loving husband, Richard, and began a family; and
 
10    WHEREAS, After many years of nursing in hospitals and
11healthcare centers, Freda Aron moved to Utah as a VISTA
12volunteer at the age of 75, while there, she practiced nursing
13on a Navajo reservation; she later moved to Sitka, Alaska to
14volunteer in running a shelter for abused women and children;
15while in Sitka, she gave strength and dignity to battered women
16and children and offered clothing, counsel, medical advice, and
17care to the communities of both places that she loved so well;
18she also volunteered as a forest ranger/goodwill ambassador and
19delighted visitors there with stories of the city and her past;
20and
 
21    WHEREAS, Freda Aron had a regular Thursday morning radio

 

 

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1program on KCAW called 'Frankie and Freda', highlighting the
2music of Frank Sinatra; and
 
3    WHEREAS, Freda Aron was an avid writer and following
4politics intently; over the years, she wrote regularly for the
5Bugle in Niles, the Lerner Papers in Skokie, the Chicago
6Tribune, the Raven Newspaper in Sitka, Alaska, and various Utah
7papers; she was also the editor of SHE, the first local
8newspaper written exclusively for women, in the early 1970s;
9from the 1950s until recently, she wrote articles about her
10very liberal political views, which she was happy to share with
11everyone; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Freda Aron was the beloved wife of the late Dr.
13Richard F. Aron; the dear mother of Stan, Len, Cara, and Linda;
14the mother-in-law of Brenda and Liz; the grandmother of Cade
15(Bari), Victoria, Marisa, and Shauna; the devoted daughter of
16Sam and Dora Umansky; and the loving sister of Esther and
17Millicent; therefore, be it
 
18    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
19NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
20we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of
21Freda Aron; and be it further
 
22    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be

 

 

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1presented to the family of Freda Aron as an expression of our
2sympathy.