Full Text of SR0110 96th General Assembly
SR0110 96TH 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 Jesus Gabriel Martinez of Chatham, | 4 |
| formerly of Springfield, who passed away on February 21, 2009; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, He was born March 24, 1932, in Havana, Cuba, to | 7 |
| Bernandino and Berta Storch Martinez; in 1959 he married Carman | 8 |
| O. Casanova in Havana; he graduated from the University of | 9 |
| Havana with a degree in accounting and worked for the Cuban | 10 |
| government as a CPA prior to it becoming a communist country; | 11 |
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| WHEREAS, After the Cuban revolution in 1962, Jesus was able | 13 |
| to immigrate to the United States, where he joined the United | 14 |
| States Army; during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was stationed | 15 |
| at Fort Jackson, South Carolina; when Carman was able to | 16 |
| emigrate from Cuba, they lived in Florida temporarily; and
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| WHEREAS, Due to political unrest and unavailability of his | 18 |
| educational documents, Jesus chose to attend Indiana State | 19 |
| University in Terre Haute where he earned his B.A. in | 20 |
| Education; following his graduation, he and his wife moved to | 21 |
| Springfield where, at Jefferson Middle School, he began his | 22 |
| 30-year Spanish teaching career with Springfield School |
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| District #186; he also worked for H & R Block; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, During his years of teaching, he lived in | 3 |
| Springfield and was a member of the Douglas Avenue Methodist | 4 |
| Church as well as El Groupo Latino, for which he played the | 5 |
| bongo drums; using his training in the United States Army, he | 6 |
| enjoyed fixing things; upon retiring in 1995, he moved to | 7 |
| Chatham and became a member of Chatham United Methodist Church; | 8 |
| throughout his life, he enjoyed his family, listening to music, | 9 |
| dancing, going to the beach with family, and looking forward to | 10 |
| cooking his traditional lechon assado (roast pork) every | 11 |
| Christmas; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife, Carman; his | 13 |
| brother, Raul; and his sister, Edilia; and
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| WHEREAS, Jesus Martinez is survived by his daughters, Patty | 15 |
| (Bob) Lanser and Ivonne Martinez (husband, Tsen Chung Kang); | 16 |
| his grandchildren, Haley, Olivia, Sophie, Jack, Christopher, | 17 |
| Jonathan, and Emily to whom he was known as abuelo (grandfather | 18 |
| in Spanish); and his sister, Berta; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 20 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 21 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Jesus Martinez; and be | 22 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of Jesus Martinez as a symbol of our | 3 |
| sincere sympathy.
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