Full Text of SR0750 94th General Assembly
SR0750 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Simone J. Mokrauer of Oak | 4 |
| Park on April 21, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born in Strasbourg, France, and also lived | 6 |
| in Germany, England, Scotland, and Lebanon, before moving to | 7 |
| the United States in 1946; after seven years in Manhattan and | 8 |
| five years in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, she and her family | 9 |
| moved to Westfield, New Jersey, where she lived for the next 45 | 10 |
| years; in 2003 she retired to Holley Court Terrace in Oak Park; | 11 |
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Mokrauer was educated at the Sorbonne in | 13 |
| Paris and dedicated her life to French and German education as | 14 |
| a teacher and a private tutor, traveling the world to sightsee | 15 |
| and visit her many friends and her constantly expanding family; | 16 |
| she was an inveterate reader and Scrabble player in French, | 17 |
| German, and English, and in her constant effort to expand her | 18 |
| horizons, she was an avid participant in various activities, | 19 |
| most notably the Great Books Program; and
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| WHEREAS, In Westfield, she was a member of Le Petit Coin de | 21 |
| France, the Westfield Historical Society, and the Westfield | 22 |
| Community Players, and she hosted a group of former French | 23 |
| students from Kean University for more than 25 years; in Oak | 24 |
| Park she attended meetings of the French Club; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Simone Mokrauer has been deeply | 26 |
| felt by many, especially her children, Margot Loewenstein, Tuny | 27 |
| Mokrauer (Dan Madden), and Donald Mokrauer (Ellen Kirschner); | 28 |
| her nine grandchildren; her 15 great-grandchildren; and her | 29 |
| four great-great-grandchildren; she was preceded in death in | 30 |
| 1980 by her husband of 45 years, Bernhard Norbert; therefore, | 31 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 2 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 3 |
| Simone Mokrauer, and we extend our sincere condolences to her | 4 |
| family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 5 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our deepest | 8 |
| sympathy.
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