Full Text of SR0593 95th General Assembly
SR0593 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 Geraldine W. "Jerry" Boehm of McHenry, | 4 |
| who passed away on March 3, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born July 3, 1922, in Chicago, to Harry J. | 6 |
| and Hazel W. (Beaman) Becker; she lived in McHenry for more | 7 |
| than 70 years; she graduated from McHenry High School in 1940; | 8 |
| in 1943, she enlisted as a W.A.V.E. in the United States Navy | 9 |
| and served for three years in Washington D.C.'s Office of Naval | 10 |
| Intelligence; in 1945, she married Robert J. Doran and he | 11 |
| preceded her in death in 1955; in 1959, she married her second | 12 |
| husband, John L. Boehm, who preceded her in death March 22, | 13 |
| 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, She served on the original site selection | 15 |
| committee for McHenry County College and was secretary of the | 16 |
| McHenry Township Republican Women's Club; she also was the | 17 |
| secretary of United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois for 14 years and | 18 |
| served for many years as president of McHenry's UCP affiliate; | 19 |
| she founded the Blackhawk Region of United Cerebral Palsy, | 20 |
| which, to this day, serves clients in six northern Illinois | 21 |
| counties; Pioneer Center grew out of this organization; and
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| WHEREAS,
She was the founder of McHenry High School's first |
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| PTA; she served many years as president of the local | 2 |
| Toastmasters and was district governor for two years; she was | 3 |
| on the Comprehensive Health Planning Committee mandated by | 4 |
| former Governor Richard Ogilvie and was instrumental in the | 5 |
| construction of McHenry's first hospital; she also wrote the | 6 |
| "History of McHenry Hospital" for the History of McHenry | 7 |
| County; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1973, she graduated from McHenry County College | 9 |
| and was named in the Who's Who in Junior Colleges in 1972-73; | 10 |
| she was a charter member of Women's World War II Veterans and | 11 |
| was a member of the McHenry Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary | 12 |
| 4600, American Legion Post 491, AMVETS Post 269, Toastmasters | 13 |
| International for 30 years, and First United Methodist Church | 14 |
| of McHenry, where she sang in the choir for more than 30 years; | 15 |
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| WHEREAS, She performed for the Ann Varese Theatre Company; | 17 |
| she was a former employee of McHenry Sand and Gravel Company | 18 |
| and Quaker Inc.; she was an avid roller skater; she loved to | 19 |
| camp, fish, sing, and golf and had belonged to an exercise | 20 |
| group at Shamrock Health Club; she also loved public speaking | 21 |
| and fundraising; however, cooking was not her passion; and
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| WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her first husband, | 23 |
| Robert J. Doran; her second husband, John L. Boehm; an infant |
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| son, John Scott Boehm; her parents; a sister, Dorothea Moore; | 2 |
| and a brother, William Becker; and
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| WHEREAS, Geraldine Boehm is survived by her children, James | 4 |
| W. (Charlotte) Doran, Robert J. (Karen) Doran, Kathleen Ellen | 5 |
| (Grayling) Repke, Terrence P. (Susan) Doran, Kevin M. Doran, | 6 |
| and Gary S. Boehm; her seven grandchildren, James Doran, Julie | 7 |
| Sherman, Sarah Mudd, Robert Doran III, Michael Repke, David | 8 |
| Repke, and Lindsey Doran; and her four great-grandchildren, | 9 |
| Regan Sherman, Ryan Sherman, Reese Sherman, and Isabel Doran | 10 |
| Mudd; therefore, be it
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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 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Geraldine W. "Jerry" | 14 |
| Boehm; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to the family of Geraldine W. "Jerry" Boehm as a | 17 |
| symbol of our sympathy.
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