Full Text of SR0061 96th General Assembly
SR0061 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Judith Drury of Winthrop Harbor, who | 4 |
| passed away on January 4, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Judith Drury was born in Winona, Minnesota on | 6 |
| September 24, 1942; she was the first child of Lambert J. and | 7 |
| Cecilia A. (Wiersgalla) Hamerski; and
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| WHEREAS, Judith Drury attended St. Stanislaus Grade | 9 |
| School, Cotter High School, and St. Teresa College in Winona; | 10 |
| she interned as a social worker for the Diocese of Winona for | 11 |
| one year; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1964, Judith Drury started her first job, | 13 |
| working for Catholic Charities of Chicago in the Lake County | 14 |
| Office in downtown Waukegan; she was also employed with Sellke & | 15 |
| Reily Orthodontics in Grayslake; that same year, she met her | 16 |
| future husband, Daniel P. Drury, while both were teaching CCD | 17 |
| at Immaculate Conception Church in Waukegan; they were united | 18 |
| in marriage on October 28, 1967 at the Cathedral of the Sacred | 19 |
| Heart in Winona; together, they have two children, Patrick J. | 20 |
| (Sara) Drury and Joyce E. (Jaime) Rosen; and
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| WHEREAS, Judith Drury was a community-minded individual |
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| who volunteered for various organizations, including Star | 2 |
| Hospice, AAUW Nursery School, Oakdale and Cook Magnet Schools | 3 |
| in Waukegan, and St. Joseph High School in Kenosha; she also | 4 |
| served two years as President of the P.E.O. (Philanthropic | 5 |
| Educational Organization) International; she was also | 6 |
| concerned with environmental issues and worked tirelessly to | 7 |
| preserve the world around her; and
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| WHEREAS, At Saint Mary Catholic Church in Kenosha, Judith | 9 |
| Drury ministered as a Greeter, served on the Stewardship | 10 |
| Committee, and attended Bible study and Adoration; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, Judith Drury will be sadly missed by her | 12 |
| grandchildren, Seth Matthew and Lily Katherine Rosen, Kelsey | 13 |
| and Sydney Rosen, and Celia Rose and Kira Jane Drury; she is | 14 |
| also survived by her sister, Nancy (William) Lambert; her | 15 |
| brother, Michael (Susan) Hamerski; and her nieces and nephews, | 16 |
| Kristine Lambert, Anthony (Lorie) Lambert, Jennifer | 17 |
| Lambert-Smith (Brad), and Madeleine and Samuel Hamerski; | 18 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 20 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 21 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Judith Drury; and be it | 22 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of Judith Drury as an expression of our | 3 |
| sympathy.
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