Full Text of SR1135 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Margaret Jeanne Walkup Nienstedt of | 4 | | Crystal Lake, who passed away on October 4, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Nienstedt was born in Woodstock on | 6 | | February 24, 1918 to Harold and Helen (nee Cretcher) Walkup and | 7 | | was raised on the original 1836 Walkup homestead between | 8 | | Crystal Lake and Woodstock; she graduated from Crystal Lake | 9 | | Community High School and earned her bachelor's degree in | 10 | | teaching at Northern Illinois University; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Nienstedt taught elementary school for | 12 | | 26 years, primarily at North School in Crystal Lake; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Nienstedt belonged to many teaching and | 14 | | civic organizations, including the Daughters of the American | 15 | | Revolution, PEO, and Delta Kappa Gamma; she was an avid Bridge | 16 | | player for decades, before and into her nineties, and belonged | 17 | | to many bridge clubs; she was first a member of the | 18 | | Presbyterian Church in Ridgefield, along with her mother and | 19 | | father, and then later became a member of the First | 20 | | Congregational Church of Crystal Lake; she had a passion for | 21 | | writing and was a published poet; she compiled a volume of 86 | 22 | | poems and self-published her works with the help of her |
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| 1 | | daughter and her granddaughter; she traveled the world with her | 2 | | dearest friend and companion, Carmel Price; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Nienstedt was preceded in death by her | 4 | | parents and her companion, Carmel Price; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Margaret Nienstedt is survived by her children, | 6 | | Margaret Helen (Richard) Jones and Richard Nienstedt; her | 7 | | grandchildren, Amanda Flohr, Christine Stratton, Elisabeth | 8 | | Flohr, Mary Margaret Vasquez, and Katherine C. Jones; her 4 | 9 | | great-grandchildren; her dear cousin, Helen Lee Reid, and | 10 | | husband, Howard, and Helen's children, Elizabeth and Nancy; and | 11 | | by the members of the Carmel Price family of Crystal Lake, who | 12 | | became her family for 40 years; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 14 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 15 | | Margaret Jeanne Walkup Nienstedt, and extend our sincere | 16 | | condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved | 17 | | her; and be it further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to the family of Margaret Nienstedt as an expression | 20 | | of our deepest sympathy.
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