Full Text of SR0635 93rd General Assembly
SR0635 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate were deeply | 3 |
| saddened to learn of the death of Myra Virginia Park on July 6, | 4 |
| 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Virginia was born in Chicago in 1909, and was | 6 |
| raised on the North Shore; she graduated from Evanston High | 7 |
| School in 1927, and from The Principia College in St. Louis | 8 |
| with an associate of arts degree in 1929; for the next four | 9 |
| years, she served as a housemother on the campus of The | 10 |
| Principia; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1938, she married William Brown Park and they | 12 |
| built a home in a part of Prairie View, which is now included | 13 |
| in Long Grove; in 1944, she co-founded the Community Club, an | 14 |
| organization which sought to include the entire community in | 15 |
| activities centered at the school; this group later became the | 16 |
| Kildeer Community Club, when four one-room schools were | 17 |
| consolidated into the Kildeer Countryside School, at the time a | 18 |
| pioneer in new school design; she served as a judge of | 19 |
| elections for more than 40 years; she was the founder and first | 20 |
| president of both the Vernon Township Historical Society and | 21 |
| the Long Grove Historical Society; and
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| WHEREAS, Her book about the history of Long Grove, "Long | 23 |
| Grove, Lore and Legend", was awarded first place for books on | 24 |
| Illinois history by the Illinois Congress of Historical | 25 |
| Societies and Museums in 1978; in 1992, she co-authored with | 26 |
| her husband "With Rhyme and Reason", a compilation of poetry | 27 |
| and prose; she was listed in "Who's Who of American Women" in | 28 |
| 1968-1969; she served as producer and distributor from 1961 to | 29 |
| 1990 of the Landenberg Paper Equivalenter and Metric | 30 |
| Calculator, a circular slide rule for the paper trade that was | 31 |
| invented and sold by her father, Ralph Landenberger; and
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| WHEREAS, She was the Long Grove columnist for the | 2 |
| Barrington Courier for several years in the 1950s; she | 3 |
| purchased the Vernon Town Crier in 1961 and expanded this | 4 |
| four-page developer's newsletter from the Lincolnshire area | 5 |
| into a 20-page weekly newspaper serving seven villages with a | 6 |
| great deal of local political coverage; the Illinois Press | 7 |
| Association awarded her the Best Local Editorial Award in 1964 | 8 |
| and an award for general excellence in 1965; she sold the paper | 9 |
| in 1967 but continued to write for the Lakeland Publishers and | 10 |
| occasionally also for the Daily Herald into the early 1990s; | 11 |
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| WHEREAS, For a lifetime of service to the schools of Vernon | 13 |
| Township, she and her husband were the first recipients, in | 14 |
| 1988, of the Heritage Award given by A.E. Stevenson High School | 15 |
| for major contributions to education in the community; and | 16 |
| WHEREAS, Virginia embraced country living, getting to know | 17 |
| the farmers who lived in the area; she grew a victory garden | 18 |
| during World War II and enjoyed her orchard and berry gardens | 19 |
| and vines; she kept a weather journal for many years; she was | 20 |
| an avid swimmer well into her eighties, as well as a seamstress | 21 |
| and homemaker; her interest in local life and ways was often | 22 |
| expressed in her "Hear Ye! Hear Ye!" columns in the Vernon Town | 23 |
| Crier, offering younger folk the opportunity to see a different | 24 |
| side of life in Lake County; elementary and high school classes | 25 |
| heard her talks on historical subjects; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Myra Virginia Park will be deeply | 27 |
| felt by many, especially by Drusilla Park Jones and Deborah | 28 |
| Park Mynatt; and her grandchildren, Jon Giles Jones, Robin | 29 |
| Penuel Jones, Gwyneth Jones Spangler, Abraham Duncum Mynatt, | 30 |
| and Grace Park Mynatt; and
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| WHEREAS, In addition to her husband, she was preceded in | 32 |
| death by her son, Daniel Boone Park; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 2 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 3 |
| Myra Virginia Park along with all who knew and loved her and | 4 |
| extend our sincere condolences to her family and friends; and | 5 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 |
| presented to the family of Myra Virginia Park as an expression | 8 |
| of our deepest sympathy.
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