Full Text of SR0137 095th General Assembly
SR0137 95TH 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 Mary A. Schickel of Loveland, Ohio, who | 4 |
| passed away on April 7, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born Mary Alice Frei, a daughter of a | 6 |
| family of German-American stained-glass artists, who grew up in | 7 |
| St. Louis, where her father, Emil Frei, immigrated from Munich, | 8 |
| Germany; the Frei family had been stained-glass artists there | 9 |
| for several generations; and
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| WHEREAS, As a young woman in the 1940s, she embraced the | 11 |
| Grail, an international women's movement that envisions a world | 12 |
| of peace, justice and renewal of the earth; she attended the | 13 |
| Grailville Year School of Apostolate and, after marrying | 14 |
| William Schickel in 1947, they moved to a farm in Loveland near | 15 |
| Grailville, the National Grail office;
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| WHEREAS, In 1969, Mrs. Schickel and her husband purchased | 17 |
| and restored a B & O Railroad depot in Loveland that dated to | 18 |
| 1907; they ran it as a community art center for a number of | 19 |
| years; their project was the beginning of the restoration of | 20 |
| historic Loveland; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Schickel loved liturgical music and was a |
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| vocalist; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Mary Schickel will be deeply felt | 3 |
| by all who knew and loved her, especially her husband, William; | 4 |
| her daughters, Martha Dorff, Anna (Illinois State Senator | 5 |
| William) Haine, Elizabeth Robinson, Mary Moorman, Ruth | 6 |
| Tabeling, and Joy France; her sons, Bill Schickel, John | 7 |
| Schickel, Joseph Schickel, Benedict Schickel, and Martin | 8 |
| Schickel; her brothers, Dr. Emil Frei and Robert Frei; her 32 | 9 |
| grandchildren; and her 15 great-grandchildren; therefore, be | 10 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 12 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 13 |
| all her family and friends, the passing of Mary A. Schickel; | 14 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to the family of Mary A. Schickel as a symbol of our | 17 |
| sincere sympathy.
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