Full Text of HR1338 94th General Assembly
HR1338 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to recognize Sandie Oswald on the | 4 |
| occasion of her retirement; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Oswald was born on January 29, 1940, in | 6 |
| Louisville, Illinois, to Steve and Maggie (Shelton) Jennings; | 7 |
| she graduated from Clay City Grade School in 1984 and Salem | 8 |
| High School in 1958; and
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| WHEREAS, She moved to northern Indiana and eventually to | 10 |
| Cook County, Illinois; she worked for Illinois Bell Telephone | 11 |
| Company in Harvey; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Oswald married Verlyn "Ozzie" Oswald in Blue | 13 |
| Island on January 28, 1961; she went on to attend and graduate | 14 |
| from Blue Island College of Cosmetology, where she taught for | 15 |
| five years; and
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| WHEREAS, The Oswalds lived in Blue Island until moving to | 17 |
| Iuka in 1972; she first worked at the Marion County Jail as a | 18 |
| secretary and female correctional officer; she started in the | 19 |
| Marion County Clerk's Office in 1992, where she worked | 20 |
| part-time and went to full-time in January of 1993, working on | 21 |
| vital records and elections; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Oswald served 16 years on the Executive | 23 |
| Committee of the Marion County Democratic Central Committee, 14 | 24 |
| years as chairwoman/vice chairman and two years secretary; she | 25 |
| is a past president and secretary of the Salem Democrat Club | 26 |
| and a past president of the Iuka Community Development Corp.; | 27 |
| she served as coordinator of the Iuka Homecoming Parade, is a | 28 |
| past president of the Iuka Grade School PTO, and was a Beta | 29 |
| Club sponsor; and
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| WHEREAS, She joins her husband, who retired from the Marion | 2 |
| County Sheriff's Dept. three years ago; she is the proud mother | 3 |
| of Chuck (wife, Maria), Steve (wife, Connie), and Amy Jo | 4 |
| (husband, Scott Pahlmann) and the proud grandmother of Corrine, | 5 |
| Cassandra, Thomas, Lucas, Amber (husband, Matt Winkler), | 6 |
| Stephen, Kyra, Kalan, Eli, and Cooper; she is the | 7 |
| great-grandmother of Matthew; and
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| WHEREAS, In retirement, she and her husband plan to spoil | 9 |
| their grandchildren, spend time with family and friends, and | 10 |
| travel; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 |
| we congratulate Sandie Oswald on the occasion of her | 14 |
| retirement, and we thank her for the many years she has | 15 |
| dedicated to public service; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to her as an expression of our esteem.
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