Full Text of SR0297 95th General Assembly
SR0297 95TH 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 Elizabeth Jean "Betsy" Caprini of | 4 |
| Clarendon Hills, formerly of Hinsdale, who passed away on June | 5 |
| 7, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Elizabeth Caprini was born in Elizabethtown, | 7 |
| Pennsylvania on February 4, 1955; and
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| WHEREAS, She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University | 9 |
| of Kentucky in 1976; in 1980 she earned her juris doctorate | 10 |
| from Vanderbilt University; she was named best oralist of the | 11 |
| Jessup International Moot Court Team while attending | 12 |
| Vanderbilt; she was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1980, as | 13 |
| well as the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the | 14 |
| Northern District of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a member of the American Bar Association, | 16 |
| the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar | 17 |
| Association, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; | 18 |
| she most recently was employed with Hanson Peters Nye, where | 19 |
| she became a partner in 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a member of Grace Episcopal Church in | 21 |
| Hinsdale, where she sang in the choir; she enjoyed tennis, |
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| traveling, reading, playing piano, and watching March Madness; | 2 |
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| WHEREAS, Elizabeth Caprini was preceded in death by her | 4 |
| mother, Helen Whinery, and her brother, Andy; she is survived | 5 |
| by her husband of 24 years, John M.; her children, Stephanie | 6 |
| and Matthew; her father, Robert Whinery; her sisters, Pam (Ken) | 7 |
| Knowles, Pat (Joe) Davidson, and Sharon (David) Ohrenstein; and | 8 |
| many nieces and nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 10 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 11 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Elizabeth Caprini; and | 12 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the family of Elizabeth Caprini as a symbol of our | 15 |
| sympathy.
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