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Pals, pols pay tribute to Severns

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980225
Author:DAVE MCKINNEY

DECATUR, Ill. Less than 48 hours before Sen. Penny Severns lost her battle with breast cancer, she invoked these words of William Butler Yeats to describe how dearly she valued her friends: "Think where one's glory most begins and ends, and say that my glory is that I have such friends."

On Tuesday, hundreds of those friends, perhaps even a thousand of them, bid the Decatur Democrat a final goodbye, as some recalled her grace, her JFK-inspired idealism for public service and the courage she showed fighting her deadly illness.

"Life should be composed of deeds, not years. Dreams, not ...

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