[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 132 (Wednesday, September 24, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1871]
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                      IN MEMORY OF MARGE HARTIGAN

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2003

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Marge Hartigan, an 
extraordinary woman who passed away on June 28, 2003, after a long and 
courageous battle with lung cancer. Marge was married to Illinois 
Appellate Court Judge Neil Hartigan for 41 years and was the very proud 
mother of four children: John, Elizabeth Connelly, Laura Jenkins and 
Bridget Routh, and the loving grandmother of five.
  Marge Hartigan was born in New York and raised in Connecticut. After 
graduating from Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, she married 
Neil and later moved to Chicago, Illinois where she lived the remainder 
of her life. She made an indelible impact on the community through her 
philanthropic involvement with dozens of Chicago area foundations and 
organizations. She held positions on the boards and executive 
committees of such groups as the Chicago Trust, the Boys and Girls Club 
of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Field Museum, the 
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Children's 
Memorial Hospital, as well as Northwestern, Loyola and DePaul 
Universities. She also served as past president of the Service Club of 
Chicago. President Clinton appointed her to serve on the advisory 
committee for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where 
she served with great distinction.
  Marge was a woman who loved and was loved deeply in return by her 
family and her circle of friends. She considered herself a mother and 
homemaker above all else. When asked what she considered the greatest 
monument of her life to be, she responded that it was her four children 
and the successful lives they created. Marge had a great sense of humor 
and an enormous amount of talent, energy and good common sense. She had 
an ability to get right to the heart of issues and would discuss them 
from a human point of view.
  I ask all my colleagues in the House to join me in expressing our 
collective sympathy to the family of Marge Hartigan and by doing so, 
honor her life and her work to make her community and our country 
better for human kind.

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