Full Text of SR0269 95th General Assembly
SR0269 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
Katherine Figge of Edwardsville, who | 4 |
| passed away on June 20, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Katherine Figge was born on February 14, 1905, in | 6 |
| East St. Louis; she was the daughter of the late Harry and | 7 |
| Catherine Hunterbrinker Stanton; she married Walter Figge on | 8 |
| February 7, 1932, in Alhambra; and
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| WHEREAS, Katherine Figge began working at the age of 13 at | 10 |
| Schaefer's Department Store in East St. Louis as a cashier; at | 11 |
| age 15, she began working at S.S. Kresge's Five and Dime in | 12 |
| East St. Louis as a cashier, working there until 1943; along | 13 |
| with her husband she owned and operated Figge's Grocery on St. | 14 |
| Louis Street in Edwardsville from 1943 to 1968; from 1968 to | 15 |
| 1994, she was employed as a bookkeeper at Schwartz Drug Store, | 16 |
| and later worked part time at Madison Telephone Company in | 17 |
| Hamel; she was a member of the Eden United Church of Christ in | 18 |
| Edwardsville; and
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| WHEREAS, Katherine Figge was preceded in death by her | 20 |
| husband; her parents; her sister, Margaret Hubeli; her brother, | 21 |
| Harry Stanton; her nephew, Don Stanton; and her niece, Mary | 22 |
| Louise Richards; and
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| WHEREAS, Katherine Figge is survived by her nieces and | 2 |
| nephews, Robert Schwartz and his wife, Sandi, Dr. William | 3 |
| Schwartz and his wife, Gay, Rex Aton, Jean Krome, Donna Duncan, | 4 |
| Dr. Guy Aton and his wife, Jeanne, Mary Jan Figge, June | 5 |
| Stewart, and Mark Figge; her sister-in-law, Jean Figge; and | 6 |
| numerous great-nieces and great-nephews, and great-great | 7 |
| nieces and nephews; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 9 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 10 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Katherine Figge; and be | 11 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 |
| presented to the family of Katherine Figge as an expression of | 14 |
| our sympathy.
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