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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the |
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| State of Illinois learned with sadness of the death of former |
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| State Representative Mary Jeanne "Dolly" Hallstrom of Evanston |
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| on Wednesday, August 2, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Mary Jeanne Louise DeBats was born in East Orange, |
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| New Jersey, on December 21, 1924; she attended Catholic |
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| boarding school and moved to Chicago to study nursing at Loyola |
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| University; and
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| WHEREAS, She received the nickname "Dolly" from her |
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| husband, Gordon Hallstrom, whom she met in the mid-1940s; they |
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| married in 1946; he preceded her in death; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Hallstrom first began working to help children |
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| with disabilities in 1955, when she was a member of the North |
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| Shore Junior Women's Club; beginning in 1968, she served for |
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| two years as a member of the federal White House Conference |
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| Commission on Mental Health; and
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| WHEREAS, She was elected to the General Assembly in 1978 |
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| and later served on the Illinois Human Rights Commission, |
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| having been reappointed in 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Mary Jeanne "Dolly" Hallstrom has |
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| been deeply felt by many, especially her children, Gordon |
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| Timothy Hallstrom and Amy Bejarano; her grandson, Etienne |
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| (Shelli) Bejarano; and her future great-grandchild, Cooper |
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| Riley; she was the sister-in-law of Alice Hallstrom and Jean |
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| Ligocki and the fond aunt of seven nieces and nephews; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |