Full Text of HR1078 95th General Assembly
HR1078 95TH 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 former | 4 |
| State Representative Giddy Erwin Dyer of Davidson, North | 5 |
| Carolina, formerly of Hinsdale, who passed away on February 28, | 6 |
| 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Goudyloch Saffold Erwin was born May 28, 1919, in | 8 |
| Atlanta, Georgia, and spent her childhood in Davidson, North | 9 |
| Carolina; she was the daughter of the late Mary Louisa Browne | 10 |
| Erwin and former Davidson College English professor Edward | 11 |
| Jones Erwin; her brothers, George Pfifer Erwin and Edward Jones | 12 |
| Erwin, were both killed during World War II and her family | 13 |
| constructed a memorial building in their honor, Erwin Lodge, | 14 |
| which remains part of the campus of Davidson College; and
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| WHEREAS, After completing a year at then all-male Davidson | 16 |
| College, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Agnes Scott | 17 |
| College in Atlanta in 1938; she spent two years as an assistant | 18 |
| children's librarian at the New York City Public Library; while | 19 |
| living in Brooklyn, New York, she met and married Robert | 20 |
| Campbell Dyer, who preceded her in death in 2004 after 63 years | 21 |
| of marriage; and
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| WHEREAS, Following World War II, she and her husband moved |
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| to the Chicago area where she became active in local community | 2 |
| groups including Girl Scouts, the parent-teacher associations | 3 |
| at her children's schools, the American Association of | 4 |
| University Women, and the League of Women Voters; she also | 5 |
| wrote reviews of children's books for The Chicago Tribune; | 6 |
| through her involvement in the League of Women Voters, as well | 7 |
| as the National Council of Republican Workshops, she entered | 8 |
| politics in 1960 as the first woman elected to the DuPage | 9 |
| County Board of Commissioners; she held the office until 1968, | 10 |
| when she was elected to the first of six terms in the Illinois | 11 |
| House of Representatives; and
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| WHEREAS, As a State Representative, Giddy Dyer focused on | 13 |
| health, education, conservation, and issues affecting women | 14 |
| and children; she was chief Republican House sponsor of the | 15 |
| Equal Rights Amendment, and successfully pushed it through the | 16 |
| Illinois House in 1975; her many honors for her public service | 17 |
| included being named 1973 Woman of the Year by Illinois | 18 |
| Business and Professional Women, and in 1982, receiving the | 19 |
| Distinguished Alumna Award from both of her alma maters; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, She served on many boards, including Planned | 21 |
| Parenthood of the Chicago Area and the Elmhurst College Board | 22 |
| of Trustees; she also served on the board to develop the | 23 |
| Davidson retirement community that became The Pines; through | 24 |
| most of her retirement, she maintained residences in both |
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| Davidson, North Carolina, and in Hinsdale, and was a talented | 2 |
| and devoted member of bridge clubs in both communities; and
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| WHEREAS, Giddy Erwin Dyer is survived by her son, Colin | 4 |
| Robert Campbell Dyer and wife, Janet; her daughter, Erwin | 5 |
| "Wynn" Avery Graham and husband, Michael; former | 6 |
| daughter-in-law, Marsha Dyer Kelly and husband, Chuck; her | 7 |
| granddaughter, Leigh Avery Dyer; her grandsons, Campbell | 8 |
| Robert Dyer and wife, Jen, Kelly Irl Dyer and wife, Anna, Galen | 9 |
| Avery Graham and wife, Amanda, William Erwin Reid Graham, | 10 |
| Robert "Ted" Edward Graham, and Kevin Milas Dyer; her | 11 |
| great-grandsons, Luke Campbell Robert Dyer and Finn Winston | 12 |
| Dyer; and her great-granddaughters, Ivy Greer Dyer and Brooke | 13 |
| Elizabeth Dyer; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 16 |
| mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of former | 17 |
| State Representative Giddy Erwin Dyer; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the family of Giddy Erwin Dyer as a symbol of our | 20 |
| sincere sympathy.
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