Full Text of SR1212 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 deaths of Lee and JoAnne Cabutti of Champaign, | 4 | | who passed away on September 8 and September 11, 2022, | 5 | | respectively; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Lee Cabutti was born to John and Maria Cabutti in | 7 | | Stiritz on April 5, 1925; he graduated from Johnston City High | 8 | | School in 1944; he attended Southern Illinois University | 9 | | Carbondale (SIU) from 1944 to 1948, where he played on the | 10 | | N.A.I.A. fourth place basketball team in 1944-1945, the | 11 | | N.A.I.A. National Champions basketball team in 1946-1947, and | 12 | | the Corn Bowl championship football team in 1947; he was named | 13 | | the most valuable football player at SIU in 1946; he served as | 14 | | president of the senior class and president of the Sphinx | 15 | | Club; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Lee Cabutti taught and coached in Herrin from | 17 | | 1948 to 1955, where he was the head football, basketball, and | 18 | | track coach; his teams won the first conference championships | 19 | | in football and basketball in school history in 1954-1955; he | 20 | | then taught and coached in Champaign from 1956 to 1986, | 21 | | serving as assistant football coach for 10 years, athletic | 22 | | director for 25 years, and head basketball coach for 30 years; | 23 | | his basketball team won third place in the state tournament in |
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| 1 | | 1969, and his teams played in the Sweet 16 three times; | 2 | | overall, his teams won 538 basketball games, making him the | 3 | | winningest coach in school history; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Lee Cabutti spent 40 summers at the National | 5 | | Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, where he served as the | 6 | | director of the High School Boys Division for the last 30; he | 7 | | also served on the board of the Developmental Services Center | 8 | | in Champaign for six years; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Lee Cabutti was inducted into the Athletic | 10 | | Director's Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Basketball Hall of Fame | 11 | | in 1974; he was the recipient of the Buzzy O'Connor Award by | 12 | | the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association in 1987; he became | 13 | | the namesake of the athletic field near the High School Boys | 14 | | Division of the National Music Camp in 2002 and the basketball | 15 | | court at Champaign Central High School in 2005; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Lee Cabutti spent his retirement years working on | 17 | | five acres of land west of Champaign, selling firewood, | 18 | | apples, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, and tomatoes; he | 19 | | also organized a travel group that has taken trips all over the | 20 | | world and now consists of over 150 people; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, JoAnne Cabutti was born to Carl and Meda Barlow | 22 | | in Carbondale on April 9, 1930; she graduated from Herrin |
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| 1 | | Township High School, earning her high school diploma in only | 2 | | three years; she graduated from St. Luke's Hospital School of | 3 | | Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri in 1951; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, JoAnne Cabutti worked as an airline stewardess | 5 | | for a brief time before returning to Herrin, becoming a staff | 6 | | nurse at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Marion; she | 7 | | then worked as a staff nurse at Provena Covenant Medical | 8 | | Center from 1957 until she retired in 1992, at which time she | 9 | | opened the first recovery room in what was then known as Mercy | 10 | | Hospital; she was named Employee of the Year in 1970; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Following her retirement, JoAnne Cabutti became a | 12 | | life member of the Provena Covenant Auxiliary, which later | 13 | | became known as Volunteer Services; during her time in the | 14 | | organization, she created the JoAnne Cabutti Mitten Tree | 15 | | project and received a commendation for volunteering over | 16 | | 22,500 hours at Provena; she also enjoyed growing beautiful | 17 | | roses and sharing them with others, winning Best of Show in a | 18 | | local rose competition; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Lee and JoAnne Cabutti were married in Herrin on | 20 | | October 1, 1955; they moved to Champaign in 1957, where they | 21 | | had recently celebrated 67 years of marriage; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Lee and JoAnne Cabutti were members of the Holy |
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| 1 | | Cross Catholic Church in Champaign, where they both served as | 2 | | eucharistic ministers; they received the Keys to the City of | 3 | | Champaign for their volunteerism and service to the community | 4 | | on March 18, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Lee and JoAnne Cabutti were preceded in death by | 6 | | their son, Mike Cabutti; Lee's sisters, Rose Brock and Lena | 7 | | Marshall; Lee's cousin, Eddie Dotta; and Lee's brother-in-law, | 8 | | Clem Brock; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Lee and JoAnne Cabutti are survived by their son, | 10 | | Mark Cabutti; their daughter-in-law, Gay White Cabutti; their | 11 | | granddaughters, Elise Cabutti and Emma Cabutti Barton | 12 | | (Austin); and Lee's cousin, Magdeline Dotta; 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 | | Lee and JoAnne Cabutti and extend our sincere condolences to | 16 | | their family, friends, and all who knew and loved them; and be | 17 | | it further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to the family of Lee and JoAnne Cabutti as an | 20 | | expression of our deepest sympathy.
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