Full Text of SR1565 101st 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 Carole E. Sharp of Staunton, who passed | 4 | | away on July 20, 2020; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Carole Sharp was born in Osage, Iowa to Rosemarie | 6 | | (Wenninger) Elbert and Donald G. Elbert on November 15, 1947; | 7 | | she completed her high school education at the International | 8 | | School of Kuwait; she studied abroad at the American College in | 9 | | Paris, France and at the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon; | 10 | | she graduated from the University of Iowa; she married John F. | 11 | | Sharp at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Iowa City, Iowa on | 12 | | April 6, 1974; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Carole Sharp taught German at Civic Memorial High | 14 | | School in Bethalto in the early 1970s; alongside her husband, | 15 | | she co-owned Party all the Time in Alton during the 1990s; she | 16 | | got involved in real estate in 2001, and she became a member of | 17 | | a sales associate team with her husband; together, they became | 18 | | part-owners of Coldwell Banker Neuhaus Real Estate in Staunton; | 19 | | and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Carole Sharp began volunteering at the Staunton | 21 | | Food Pantry in 1997, beginning a chapter of her life that would | 22 | | result in 20 years of dedicated service to her community; she |
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| 1 | | raised awareness about hunger in the community and the | 2 | | importance of the pantry through writing articles each week in | 3 | | the Staunton Star-Times and Kwik Konnection, handwriting thank | 4 | | you notes to every donor, and helping coordinate donation | 5 | | drives; she became the pantry's director in 2001; under her | 6 | | leadership, she assembled a team of volunteers who helped | 7 | | oversee its tremendous growth, and the pantry went from feeding | 8 | | 15 families per month to as many as 60 families per month by | 9 | | the mid-2000s; within her first four years of running the | 10 | | pantry, she helped feed 10,000 people; she retired from the | 11 | | Staunton Food Pantry on December 31, 2017; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Carole Sharp received a number of accolades for | 13 | | her service to her community; she was nationally recognized by | 14 | | Realtor Magazine in 2005, which awarded her with one of its | 15 | | five "Good Neighbor" awards, an award given to realtors who | 16 | | make an extraordinary difference to their community, nation, or | 17 | | the world through volunteer work; she was then honored during | 18 | | the National Realtors Conference in San Francisco, California; | 19 | | she was named Staunton Chamber of Commerce's "Citizen of the | 20 | | Year" in 2007; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Carole Sharp was lovingly known as "Maw Maw" by | 22 | | her five grandchildren; she will be missed; and
| 23 | | WHEREAS, Carole Sharp was preceded in death by her parents |
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| 1 | | and her stepmother, Phyllis Elbert; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Carole Sharp is survived by her husband; her | 3 | | children, John (Margaret Jayne) Sharp, Jim (Lisa) Sharp, and | 4 | | Annmarie (Rudy) Angel; her grandchildren, Ethan Sharp, Jace | 5 | | Sharp, Colton Sharp, Lila Sharp, and Brianna Angel; her | 6 | | brother, Donald Elbert Jr. (Myrene); and her sister, Anne | 7 | | Fratzke; therefore, be it
| 8 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 9 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 10 | | Carole E. Sharp and extend our sincere condolences to her | 11 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 12 | | further
| 13 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 | | presented to the family of Carole Sharp as an expression of our | 15 | | deepest sympathy.
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