Bill Text: IL HR0770 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Verdell Unverfehrt on her 90th birthday.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-13 - Resolution Adopted [HR0770 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0770-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Verdell (Brockmeier) | ||||||
| 4 | Unverfehrt on the occasion of her 90th birthday; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Verdell Unverfehrt was born in Venedy on May 27, | ||||||
| 6 | 1934; she attended grade school at Klasing and Ebenezer, both | ||||||
| 7 | of which were one room schoolhouses; she graduated from | ||||||
| 8 | Okawville High School in 1952, the first girl among her | ||||||
| 9 | siblings to attend high school; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Verdell Unverfehrt worked at Old Exchange | ||||||
| 11 | National Bank in Okawville after graduating high school until | ||||||
| 12 | she married Alfred Unverfehrt in 1955, when she became a | ||||||
| 13 | full-time farm wife; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Verdell Unverfehrt worked as a full partner with | ||||||
| 15 | her husband in establishing their grain, dairy, and livestock | ||||||
| 16 | farm, which is now Ven Oka Farms Inc.; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Verdell Unverfehrt had a total of four children, | ||||||
| 18 | Jim, who now operates the family farm in Okawville, Dave, who | ||||||
| 19 | lives in Florida, Karen, who lives in Nashville with her | ||||||
| 20 | husband Dave, and Julie, who lives in Carlyle with her | ||||||
| 21 | husband, Ken; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Verdell Unverfehrt still resides on the farm in a | ||||||
| 2 | house that she and her husband built, where she can be found | ||||||
| 3 | pulling weeds in her flower garden, sewing apparel and loose | ||||||
| 4 | buttons for her family and friends, and cooking her famous | ||||||
| 5 | dishes; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Verdell Unverfehrt particularly enjoys attending | ||||||
| 7 | church, spending time with her children, nine grandchildren, | ||||||
| 8 | and four great-grandchildren, and observing the bustling farm | ||||||
| 9 | life from her kitchen window; therefore, be it
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| 10 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 11 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 12 | we congratulate Verdell Unverfehrt on the occasion of her 90th | ||||||
| 13 | birthday; and be it further
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