Full Text of SR0445 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Ellen M. Whitney of Springfield, who | 4 | | passed away on July 14, 2021; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney was born to Reverend C.H. and Irene | 6 | | Whitehurst Todd in Evanston on March 13, 1920; she graduated | 7 | | from Greenville High School; she married Francis A. Whitney in | 8 | | 1940; she attended Southern Illinois University and finished | 9 | | third in the class of 1941; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney worked for the International News | 11 | | Service as a reporter and as a teacher at Feitshens High | 12 | | School; she worked for 32 years at the Illinois State | 13 | | Historical Library; she was a historical research editor of | 14 | | the papers of the late Dr. George E. Black, which required more | 15 | | than a year of work; she noted that her most difficult | 16 | | assignment was editing the library's exhaustive collection of | 17 | | the Black Hawk War papers, which required many years of work | 18 | | and filled four volumes; as part of her work, she was called to | 19 | | Washington, D.C. to serve as an expert witness in a very | 20 | | difficult American Indian claims case from the Black Hawk War | 21 | | of 1832, which ended with a rare Native American victory; for | 22 | | her last major project, she was a compiler of Illinois | 23 | | History: An Annotated Bibliography with Janice A. Petterchak |
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| 1 | | and Sandra Stark; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, For her work on the Black Hawk War papers, Ellen | 3 | | Whitney earned a national reputation and awards from the | 4 | | American Association for state and local history and from the | 5 | | State Historical Society of Wisconsin; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney was preceded in death by her | 7 | | husband; her parents; her brother, Harold Todd; and her | 8 | | sister, Grace Todd; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Ellen Whitney is survived by her one son, Blair | 10 | | (Rita) Whitney; her two grandchildren, Ruth (Ken) Antonoff and | 11 | | Helen Whitney; and her four great-grandchildren, Zachary and | 12 | | Chelsea Marek and Eva and Joseph Antonoff; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 14 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 15 | | Ellen M. Whitney and extend our sincere condolences to her | 16 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 17 | | further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to the family of Ellen Whitney as an expression of | 20 | | our deepest sympathy.
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