Full Text of SR0799 94th General Assembly
SR0799 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Helen Sauper of Naperville | 4 |
| on Saturday, July 29, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born on November 6, 1920, in Sioux City, | 6 |
| Iowa; she graduated from Central High School in Sioux City in | 7 |
| 1940; after graduation, she moved to Chicago and worked for | 8 |
| Employers' Mutual Insurance Company, Burroughs Adding Machine | 9 |
| Company, and the Meinhardt Diamond Tool Company; she met and | 10 |
| married her late husband, Ralph, in Chicago in 1942; and
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| WHEREAS, She lived in various places in the country, while | 12 |
| her husband was serving in the Signal Corps; when he returned | 13 |
| from Korea, they moved back to Sioux City; they moved to | 14 |
| Chicago in 1947, and in 1948, they moved to Naperville; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Sauper was an employee of the Naperville | 16 |
| National Bank from 1954 to 1967, where she was the head of the | 17 |
| bookkeeping and proof departments and later became the director | 18 |
| of advertising and public relations; she was a graduate of the | 19 |
| Financial Public Relations School of Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1967, she obtained her real estate broker's | 21 |
| license and joined the real estate firm of Rich Port, Realtor | 22 |
| until 1982, when she joined Re/Max, retiring in 1989; over the | 23 |
| years of selling real estate, Mrs. Sauper received many high | 24 |
| honors for sales and listings; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Sauper was the first woman to serve as the | 26 |
| president of the Naperville Chamber of Commerce; she served on | 27 |
| many boards including Little Friends Inc., Wayside Cross Rescue | 28 |
| Mission, Lifesprings Ministries, Naperville Chamber of | 29 |
| Commerce, the YMCA, Grace United Methodist Church | 30 |
| Administrative Board, and the Naperville Cemetery Association |
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| Board; she was a member of the North Central College Executive | 2 |
| Committee for fund raising and was on the City of Naperville | 3 |
| Historic Sites Committee; she volunteered at Edward Hospital | 4 |
| and was a member of the Naperville Woman's Club; and
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| WHEREAS, She helped organize and was president of the | 6 |
| Naperville Charter Chapter of the American Business Women's | 7 |
| Association and was named Woman of the Year in 1970 by that | 8 |
| chapter; she assisted in organizing the Naperville Diamond | 9 |
| Chapter of the ABWA and was named Woman of the Year of the Year | 10 |
| in 1984 by that chapter; the Diamond Chapter merged with Aurora | 11 |
| members to form a new chapter, the Diamond City of Lights | 12 |
| Chapter, where she served as historian; she received the | 13 |
| Naperville Jaycees Distinguished Service Award in 1984 for the | 14 |
| business category; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Sauper was a member of Wesley United | 16 |
| Methodist Church, where she served on a number of committees | 17 |
| and also taught kindergarten classes for 13 years; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Helen Sauper has been deeply felt | 19 |
| by many, especially her son, John "Jack" (Adell) Sauper; her | 20 |
| daughter, Rosemary (Charles) Kuder; her five grandchildren; | 21 |
| and her two great-grandchildren; she was preceded in death by | 22 |
| her parents, Sparhawk and Henrietta (nee Goodwin) Hutchins; her | 23 |
| husband, Ralph; her brothers, Herbert, Robert, and George; and | 24 |
| her sister, Margaret Gillen; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 26 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 27 |
| Helen Sauper, and we extend our sincere condolences to her | 28 |
| family, her friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 29 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 31 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our deepest |
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