Full Text of HR0120 96th General Assembly
HR0120 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Elizabeth | 4 |
| "Bess" Eichelberger of Plainfield, who passed away on February | 5 |
| 21, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Elizabeth Eichelberger served on the Plainfield | 7 |
| School District Board for almost 26 years, including several | 8 |
| years as president: November 1981 to November 1982, November | 9 |
| 1986 to November 1987, and November 1989 to November 1991; in | 10 |
| August of 2008, Plainfield School District opened a new | 11 |
| elementary school, naming it after Elizabeth Eichelberger; she | 12 |
| began her time with the Plainfield School District Board on | 13 |
| April 13, 1976 and retired on November 12, 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, She also served 11 years as the director of the | 15 |
| Illinois Association of School Boards; while on the school | 16 |
| board, she volunteered as secretary at Indian Trail Middle | 17 |
| School and as receptionist at the district office, in addition | 18 |
| to her other volunteer work; she was school board president | 19 |
| when the 1990 tornado struck the area, destroying Plainfield | 20 |
| High School, Grand Prairie Elementary School and St. Mary's | 21 |
| Immaculate Church where she served as president of the parish | 22 |
| council; she went to Washington, D.C., after the tornado to | 23 |
| drum up support for Plainfield; and
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| WHEREAS, After retiring from the school board in 2001, she | 2 |
| stayed loyal to the Plainfield School District, serving as a | 3 |
| school board ambassador; she attended many school board | 4 |
| meetings to report on what she had seen occur at Plainfield | 5 |
| Village Board meetings; she also attended many community | 6 |
| functions, including graduations, Veterans Day celebrations, | 7 |
| homecomings, and numerous ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the | 8 |
| district's new schools; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a bookkeeper for 33 years, and received | 10 |
| numerous awards, including the United Way of Will County's | 11 |
| Roger Osman Award for distinguished volunteer service in 2005; | 12 |
| the Joliet Junior College Distinguished Service Award in 1991; | 13 |
| and the State Board of Education's Those Who Excel Award in | 14 |
| 1992; and | 15 |
| WHEREAS, She served on the YMCA advisory board, the | 16 |
| Plainfield Rotary, the United Way of Will County, the Hall of | 17 |
| Fame committee at Plainfield High School, Will County Project | 18 |
| Pride, as a greeter at St. Mary's, the district's homecoming | 19 |
| committee, and Plainfield Central High School's athletic and | 20 |
| band booster clubs; State Representative Tom Cross appointed | 21 |
| her to the State panel for Ticket for a Cure; and she helped | 22 |
| form an advisory board and recruited community members to join | 23 |
| and raise money for the C.W. Avery Family YMCA in Plainfield; |
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| WHEREAS, Her husband, Edward, died in 1976; and | 3 |
| WHEREAS, Elizabeth Eichelberger was the mother of Linda | 4 |
| (Danny) Hulbert and Ed Eichelberger; and the grandmother of | 5 |
| Christina Hulbert; she is also survived by her caregivers, Ron | 6 |
| and Kathy Kazmar; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 8 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 9 |
| mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 10 |
| Elizabeth "Bess" Eichelberger; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to the family of Elizabeth "Bess" Eichelberger as a | 13 |
| symbol of our sincere sympathy.
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