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 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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 |     WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois  | 
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 | learned with sadness of the death of Diana L. Dodd, a lifetime  | 
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 | resident of Anna, on August 2, 2005; and
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 |     WHEREAS, Mrs. Dodd was born December 17, 1919, in Anna, the  | 
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 | daughter of John Frederick and Gladys Spires Lentz; she married  | 
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 | Kenneth W. Dodd on October 30, 1943, in Santa Ana, California;  | 
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 | and
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 |     WHEREAS, She was educated in Anna, graduating from  | 
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 | Anna-Jonesboro in 1937, and received her Bachelor of Science  | 
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 | degree in Education from Southern Illinois University  | 
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 | Carbondale (SIUC); she was Assistant County Superintendent of  | 
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 | Schools in Union County until 1943; she later taught at Dongola  | 
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 | High School and Anna-Jonesboro; after finishing graduate  | 
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 | school and receiving her Master of Arts degree, she joined the  | 
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 | English staff at SIUC and taught for 28 years; at SIUC, she set  | 
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 | up a basic skills program for students of English; it  | 
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 | eventually merged with a much larger unit, including reading  | 
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 | and math;  and
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 |     WHEREAS, She and her husband enjoyed horses and traveling;  | 
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 | and
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 |     WHEREAS, The passing of Diana Dodd is felt by all who knew  | 
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 | and loved her, especially her husband, Kenneth Dodd; her half  | 
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 | sisters, Sarah Lentz Sinclair and Clara Lentz Westmoreland; her  | 
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 | sisters-in-law, Ruth Evelyn Dodd and Betty E. Dodd; her adored  | 
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 | beagle, Choteau; and her nieces, nephews, other relatives, and  | 
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 | many friends; therefore, be it
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 |     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL  | 
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 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of  | 
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 | Diana Dodd and extend our sincerest condolences to her family,  |