Full Text of SR0488 097th 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 Roberta Brabant Allen of Godfrey, who | 4 | | passed away on December 9, 2011; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, "Berta," as she was known, was born April 17, | 6 | | 1912, in Pleasanton, Kansas, and graduated with honors from the | 7 | | University of Kansas with a degree in journalism in 1932, while | 8 | | working as treasurer of 3 different sororities to pay her | 9 | | tuition; she met her future husband, Dr. Hubert Lee Allen Jr., | 10 | | at the University of Kansas; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, She lived in Fort Scott, Kansas, raising her | 12 | | children while Lt. Col. Allen was director of a MASH Unit | 13 | | during World War II for 4 years in the South Pacific; the | 14 | | family has an amazing collection of over 2,000 letters they | 15 | | exchanged which reflect the effect of the war and years of long | 16 | | separation on their small family; they moved to Alton upon Dr. | 17 | | Allen's return from overseas; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, She served on the Alton woman's Home Board, | 19 | | Community Service League, AAUW, Alton Planning Commission, and | 20 | | was a member of PEO Chapter IL; she loved gardening and enjoyed | 21 | | the piano and violin; she enjoyed reminiscing about her years | 22 | | of growing up in a small Kansas farm community and laughed |
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| 1 | | about being Captain of her high school basketball team, the | 2 | | Pleasanton Blue Jays; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her husband; her son, | 4 | | Hubert L. Allen III; her grandson, Hubert Lee Allen IV; and her | 5 | | daughter-in-law, Beverly Allen; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Roberta Allen was the beloved mother of the late | 7 | | Hubert Lee Allen III (Marion), Benjamin B. Allen (Trudi), and | 8 | | Christopher C. Allen (Rosie); she was the loving grandmother to | 9 | | Geoffrey Allen, Benjamin Allen Jr., Peter Allen (Gina), Betsy | 10 | | Puent (John), Cade Miller (Metaxia), Spencer Allen (Rachel), | 11 | | Stephanie Allen (Fabrizio), and Bryce Allen; she was the | 12 | | beloved great-grandmother of Geoffrey and Ashley Allen, Hunter | 13 | | Wyatt and Hubert Phog Allen, Lily, Claire, and Jack Puent, | 14 | | Lilliana Miller, Amelia, and Charles Allen; therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 16 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 17 | | her family and friends, the passing of Roberta Allen; and be it | 18 | | further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to the family of Roberta Allen as a symbol of our | 21 | | sincere sympathy.
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