Full Text of HR0703 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Marian Elizabeth Saathoff | 4 | | Pierzynski of Aurora on the occasion of her 100th birthday; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Marian Pierzynski was born in Mount Olive during a | 6 | | snow storm on December 11, 1917; she was the seventh child of | 7 | | Sarah Fremgen and John Saathoff, a coal mine examiner; the coal | 8 | | from
the mine where her father worked is in the coal mine | 9 | | exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; she | 10 | | had three brothers and six sisters; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Marian Pierzynski graduated from Mount Olive High | 12 | | School and worked as a waitress at the historic
Ariston Cafe, | 13 | | located in the town of Litchfield on Route 66; when she was in | 14 | | her 20s, she relocated to Chicago and lived with one of her | 15 | | sisters and secured a
clerical position at Florsheim Shoes | 16 | | downtown on Adams and Canal; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, In the 40s, Marian Pierzynski met her husband, | 18 | | Richard Pierzynski, a World War II veteran, at a square dancing | 19 | | club; they were married on July 28, 1952 and lived on the south | 20 | | side of Chicago in the Back of the Yards
neighborhood; she had | 21 | | two children, James Pierzynski and Susan Pierzynski Andrews; | 22 | | and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, When her children were school age, Marian | 2 | | Pierzynski went back to work at Westinghouse Electric in | 3 | | Chicago; upon her
retirement, she relocated to Wheaton with her | 4 | | daughter; in the late 90s, she relocated to Aurora to live with | 5 | | her daughter; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Marian Pierzynski was born while the United States | 7 | | was fighting in World War I; she has lived through the Roaring | 8 | | Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil | 9 | | Rights Era; she witnessed man's landing on the moon and | 10 | | countless other historical events; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 12 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 | | congratulate Marian Elizabeth Saathoff Pierzynski on her 100th | 14 | | birthday, and we wish her many more wonderful years; and be it | 15 | | further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Marian Pierzynski as a symbol of our | 18 | | congratulations.
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