Full Text of HR0158 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Freda | 4 | | Aron; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Freda Aron was born in Brooklyn, New York, in | 6 | | 1915; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, At the age of 21, Freda Aron moved to Chicago to | 8 | | attend nursing school; while there, she met and married her | 9 | | loving husband, Richard, and began a family; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, After many years of nursing in hospitals and | 11 | | healthcare centers, Freda Aron moved to Utah as a VISTA | 12 | | volunteer at the age of 75, while there, she practiced nursing | 13 | | on a Navajo reservation; she later moved to Sitka, Alaska to | 14 | | volunteer in running a shelter for abused women and children; | 15 | | while in Sitka, she gave strength and dignity to battered women | 16 | | and children and offered clothing, counsel, medical advice, and | 17 | | care to the communities of both places that she loved so well; | 18 | | she also volunteered as a forest ranger/goodwill ambassador and | 19 | | delighted visitors there with stories of the city and her past; | 20 | | and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Freda Aron had a regular Thursday morning radio |
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| 1 | | program on KCAW called 'Frankie and Freda', highlighting the | 2 | | music of Frank Sinatra; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Freda Aron was an avid writer and following | 4 | | politics intently; over the years, she wrote regularly for the | 5 | | Bugle in Niles, the Lerner Papers in Skokie, the Chicago | 6 | | Tribune, the Raven Newspaper in Sitka, Alaska, and various Utah | 7 | | papers; she was also the editor of SHE, the first local | 8 | | newspaper written exclusively for women, in the early 1970s; | 9 | | from the 1950s until recently, she wrote articles about her | 10 | | very liberal political views, which she was happy to share with | 11 | | everyone; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Freda Aron was the beloved wife of the late Dr. | 13 | | Richard F. Aron; the dear mother of Stan, Len, Cara, and Linda; | 14 | | the mother-in-law of Brenda and Liz; the grandmother of Cade | 15 | | (Bari), Victoria, Marisa, and Shauna; the devoted daughter of | 16 | | Sam and Dora Umansky; and the loving sister of Esther and | 17 | | Millicent; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 19 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 20 | | we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 21 | | Freda Aron; and be it further
| 22 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to the family of Freda Aron as an expression of our | 2 | | sympathy.
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