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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to |
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| learn of the death of
Doris Judith Steffen, who passed away on |
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| June 2, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Doris Judith Steffen was the third daughter of |
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| Kenneth P. Johnston, M.D. and Doris Tyler Johnston, R.N.; she |
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| married Fred Steffen on June 25, 1960 and had three children, |
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| Julie Steffen (Detlev Pansch), F. John (Kerin Kelly), and |
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| Robert (Ketki Shroff); and
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| WHEREAS, Doris Judith Steffen earned her bachelor's and |
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| master's degrees in English Literature at Northern Illinois |
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| University and attended post-graduate summer classes at Oxford |
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| and in Cambridge, England; and
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| WHEREAS, Doris Judith Steffen was employed as an English |
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| teacher at Elgin and Streamwood High Schools for 19 years; she |
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| also worked as a hostess and co-manager of the restaurant Cafe |
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| Magdalena for six years; and
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| WHEREAS, Doris Judith Steffen was a member of the First |
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| Congregational Church of Elgin and was active in its "Mother's |
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| Morning Out" and "Little English School" programs; she was an |
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| active member of the Elgin Junior Service Board, the Northern |
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| Kane County Cancer Society, and Women's Fitness Camp |
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| (Wisconsin); she was on the founding board of the Elgin Parent |
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| Co-Op Preschool and was a member of the Elgin Image Commission |
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| and the Elgin Symphony League; and
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| WHEREAS, Doris Judith Steffen enjoyed attending monthly |
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| book club meetings with her fellow teachers, reading The New |
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| York Times, the Daily Herald, and the Daily Courier, and |
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| solving crossword and acrostics puzzles; she was an |
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| accomplished water color painter and a member of the Fox Valley |
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| Art League; she and her husband especially enjoyed traveling |
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| and went with the Elgin Choral Union on tours to Germany, |
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| Austria, Switzerland, and England; they also traveled to |
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| Australia, China, Korea, Japan, and Bolivia; her most loved |
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| hobby, however, was caring for and riding Jazz, her 22-year-old |
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| thoroughbred mare; and
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| WHEREAS, Doris Judith Steffen is survived by her children; |
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| her grandchildren, Joan, Chloe, Lili, Nicole, Abigail, Alyssa, |
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| Liam, and Tristan; and her sisters, Charlotte Wurth and Nancy |
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| Johnston Boland (Richard); therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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| her family and friends, the passing of Doris Judith Steffen; |
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| and be it further
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