Illinois SR 509: MEMORIAL-PATRICK M. HEMINGWAY

Status: Resolution Adopted (as of 2026-01-14)

State: Illinois · Session: 104th · Bill: SR 509

Sponsors: Don Harmon

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SR0509LRB104 16168 ECR 29536 r

1SENATE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened 

3to learn of the death of Patrick Miller Hemingway of Bozeman, 

4Montana, who passed away on September 2, 2025 at the age of 97; 

5and

6 WHEREAS, Patrick Hemingway, affectionately known by his 

7family as Mouse, was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Ernest 

8Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer on June 28, 1928; and

9 WHEREAS, Patrick Hemingway spent his youth in both Cuba 

10and Key West, Florida, adventuring with his father on his 

11fishing boat, Pilar; after his graduation from Canterbury 

12School, a Catholic boarding school in Connecticut, he attended 

13Stanford University before transferring to and graduating from 

14Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and 

15Literature in 1950; and

16 WHEREAS, Patrick Hemingway and Henrietta Broyles married 

17that same year, and they later moved to Tanganyika, now 

18Tanzania, and purchased a 2,300-acre farm; and

19 WHEREAS, Patrick Hemingway began his career dedicated to 

20wildlife instruction at the College of African Wildlife 

21Management; he became a forestry officer of the United Nations 

SR0509- 2 -LRB104 16168 ECR 29536 r

1Food and Agriculture Organization, and over time, he gained 

2global recognition for his safaris and expeditions; he served 

3as a guide, expert, and honorary game warden in British East 

4Africa; and

5 WHEREAS, Patrick Hemingway became a father to his 

6daughter, Edwina "Mina" Hemingway, in the early 1960s while 

7also looking after his sick wife, who sadly passed away in 

81963; and

9 WHEREAS, Patrick Hemingway moved back to the United States 

10with his daughter, settling in Bozeman in 1975; he married 

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