Full Text of HR0328 96th General Assembly
HR0328 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Margit C. Bourelle | 4 |
| on the occasion of her 80th birthday on May 5, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Margit Bourelle was born on May 5, 1929 to Swedish | 6 |
| immigrants Ida Carlson and Gustav Carlson; she was raised on | 7 |
| the northwest side of Chicago; she attended McPherson Grammar | 8 |
| School and Amundsen High School; at age 14, while attending | 9 |
| Amundsen High School, she started working at a bakery in her | 10 |
| neighborhood, working there until she graduated from Amundsen | 11 |
| in 1947; and
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| WHEREAS, After graduation, Margit Bourelle began working | 13 |
| full time for the United States Department of the Treasury as a | 14 |
| secretary; between 1949 and 1952, while working full-time, she | 15 |
| belonged to the Four Hundred Club at the Aragon Ballroom, where | 16 |
| she taught ballroom dancing two nights a week; during this | 17 |
| time, she met her future husband, Berwyn Bourelle; they fell in | 18 |
| love and were married on August 30, 1952; and
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| WHEREAS, Margit Bourelle and her husband started their | 20 |
| lives together in a one bedroom apartment at 5543 N. Marmora | 21 |
| for 4 years, until their first son Franklin was born in 1956; | 22 |
| the couple then moved to a 2-bedroom apartment at 5807 Elston |
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| Avenue where, 2 years later, they were blessed with twin girls | 2 |
| Doreen and Marlene; the family resided on Elston Avenue for 10 | 3 |
| years until August of 1967, when the couple purchased their | 4 |
| first home, a 4-bedroom brick bungalow on 5837 Marmora Avenue; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, Margit Bourelle is the loving grandmother of | 7 |
| Alicia, Angela, Marena, Valerie, Tatianna, Bryanna, and | 8 |
| Serena; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 11 |
| congratulate Margit C. Bourelle on the occasion of her 80th | 12 |
| birthday and wish her many happy and healthy years to come; and | 13 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Margit Bourelle as a symbol of our esteem and | 16 |
| respect.
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