Full Text of SR0556 93rd General Assembly
SR0556 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| were saddened to learn of the death of Frances Nies Rossbach of | 4 |
| Chicago City, Minnesota, formerly a Clarendon Hills resident | 5 |
| from 1949 to 2000, on February 11, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Rossbach was born on September 18, 1924, in | 7 |
| El Paso, Texas; she was an avid tennis player who competed in | 8 |
| numerous city tennis championships; and
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| WHEREAS, She received her bachelor's degree in business | 10 |
| from what is now the University of Texas El Paso in 1945, where | 11 |
| she was named Outstanding Woman Graduate; at the college, she | 12 |
| was an active member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority and | 13 |
| served twice as president of the sorority alumnae group in | 14 |
| southwest suburban Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, She met her future husband while he was serving | 16 |
| with the United States Army, stationed at Fort Bliss during | 17 |
| World War II; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Rossbach was president of the Walker School | 19 |
| Parent-Teacher Association in the late 1950s and part of a | 20 |
| citizens group that introduced foreign language instruction | 21 |
| into District 181 elementary schools; and
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| WHEREAS, In the 1960s, she helped in the construction of | 23 |
| the Church of the Holy Nativity; she served on the church | 24 |
| vestry and was president of the Episcopal Churchwomen; she | 25 |
| mobilized support for the St. Augustine Indian Center in | 26 |
| Chicago, which enabled the center to buy its current facility; | 27 |
| she was den mother for both of her sons' Cub Scout troops and a | 28 |
| Girl Scout leader when her daughter was involved; and
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| WHEREAS, In the early 1960s, she led the citizens' |
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| committee to build the Clarendon Hills' firehouse and the | 2 |
| referendum campaign to create the police and fire pension fund; | 3 |
| in the 1970s, she was chairman of the Clarendon Hills | 4 |
| historical committee and helped write the village's 50-year | 5 |
| history; she was also chairman of the Downers Grove Township | 6 |
| Senior Citizens Committee and was director of senior activities | 7 |
| at The Community House in Hinsdale; she taught the 55 Alive | 8 |
| Defensive Driving Course; in 1964, she and her husband were the | 9 |
| first couple to receive the Distinguished Service Award from | 10 |
| the Clarendon Hills Junior Chamber of Commerce; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Frances Nies Rossbach will be | 12 |
| deeply felt by many, especially her husband of 58 years, Paul; | 13 |
| her children, Bill, Bob, and Pamela Schmitz; her grandchildren, | 14 |
| Kyle and Emilie Schmitz, Jennifer, David, and Emily | 15 |
| Richardson-Rossbach, and Brigit and Dylan Rossbach; and her | 16 |
| sister, Emily Louis Bowden; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 18 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the death of | 19 |
| Frances Nies Rossbach along with all who knew and loved her and | 20 |
| extend our sincere condolences to her family and friends; and | 21 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 23 |
| presented to Frances Nies Rossbach as an expression of our | 24 |
| deepest sympathy.
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