Full Text of HR1264 94th General Assembly
HR1264 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Each year, members of Share Pregnancy and Infant | 3 |
| Loss Support Group in Springfield meet at a "Walk to Remember" | 4 |
| to honor the lives of their children that have died; and
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| WHEREAS, Share was started in 1977 at St. John's Hospital | 6 |
| in Springfield by Sister Jane Marie Lamb, OSF, after she had | 7 |
| worked with bereaved parents in Decatur with a group called | 8 |
| AMEND (Aiding Mothers and Fathers Experiencing Neonatal | 9 |
| Death); at the time, there was not much support or knowledge | 10 |
| for parents experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death | 11 |
| of an infant; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1978, Share began providing education on | 13 |
| perinatal loss and bereavement in hospitals, colleges, | 14 |
| seminaries, and support groups; this became part of the | 15 |
| curriculum for St. John's Hospital School of Nursing, Lincoln | 16 |
| Land Nursing School, SIU School of Medicine, and for various | 17 |
| departments at the University of Illinois - Springfield; and
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| WHEREAS, The national Share office has moved from | 19 |
| Springfield, first to Belleville, and then to its present | 20 |
| location in St. Charles, Missouri, but the Springfield chapter | 21 |
| of Share continues to meet monthly in support of bereaved | 22 |
| parents; and
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| WHEREAS, Nearly every month for close to twenty years, | 24 |
| Kreston and Elizabeth Lipscomb have facilitated the | 25 |
| Springfield Share chapter; they have shared their own | 26 |
| experience with painful losses and the joy of their three | 27 |
| living children with literally hundreds and hundreds of | 28 |
| bereaved parents, thus offering comfort, support, empathy, and | 29 |
| hope for the future; and
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| WHEREAS, This year, the annual "Walk to Remember" is |
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| scheduled for the last weekend in September; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 3 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 4 |
| we recognize the annual "Walk to Remember", and we thank Kres | 5 |
| and Liz Lipscomb for the support, empathy, and hope they have | 6 |
| provided to so many grieving parents; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 |
| presented to Becky Bee, chairman of the Walk to Remember, to | 9 |
| the Springfield chapter of Share, and to Kres and Liz Lipscomb | 10 |
| as an expression of our gratitude.
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