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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3learn of the death of Robert C. Whitehead Jr. of North Chicago,
4who passed away on March 4, 2011; and
 
5    WHEREAS, He was born in 1931 in Marion, Alabama to Robert
6and Mattie Whitehead; Robert's parents moved to the Waukegan
7area in July 1937; he attended elementary schools in the
8Waukegan-North Chicago area; he graduated from Waukegan
9Township High School in June of 1949 and received a B. A.
10Degree from Central State University at Wilberforce, Ohio in
11June 1953 with a major in Political Science-History and a minor
12in Music Education; and
 
13    WHEREAS, Upon graduation from Central State University he
14received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States
15Army and served two years with the 82nd Airborne Division as a
16paratrooper-ranger; upon the completion of his military
17obligation he worked as a Postal Clerk for six and one half
18years at the North Chicago Post Office; and
 
19    WHEREAS, While working at the Post Office, he completed one
20year of law school at Chicago Kent College of Law; he earned a
21M.Ed Degree in Education at Roosevelt University with emphasis
22on Supervision and School Administration and went on to work 28

 

 

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1years with the North Chicago school system with 22 of the years
2as a School Principal and retired in 1990; he was the first
3black Junior High School Principal in Lake County; and
 
4    WHEREAS, He held the following memberships: Silver Square
5Lodge #791 Fayetteville, North Carolina Demit to; Rufus
6Mitchell Lodge #107 (Past Treasurer); Western Consistory #28
7(1965) Demit to; North Shore Consistory #91 (Most Wise &
8Perfect Master); Shawall Temple #165 A.E.A.O.N.M.S.
9Illustrious Potentate; 33rd Degree Mason; Emblem Chapter #140
10O.E.S. Past Patron; Stanley J Harris #60 Holy Royal Arch Mason;
11Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, life member; Shiloh Baptist Church,
12member for 47 years and a trustee 35 years; Past Board
13Member-Lake County Urban League; Past Board Member-Branch
14Y.M.C.A.; Past 2nd Vice-President, Illinois Lung Association;
15Past President-Lake County Lung Association; and the American
16Legion; and
 
17    WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his parents; his
18brothers, Timothy and Kenneth; and his sister, Mallie Nichols;
19and
 
20    WHEREAS, Robert Whitehead Jr. is survived by his loving
21wife, Valda; his son, Robert Rick (Shari); his granddaughter,
22Michelle Cydney; his step-grandsons, Philip, Adam, and Connor;
23his sisters, Cleopatra Cowins and Jacqueline Dorsey; his

 

 

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1brother, Lawrence (Laura); his brother-in-law, Harvey (Helen)
2Ricks; his sisters-in-law, Kaye Whitehead and Barbara Ricks;
3his uncles, Rev. John (Ruby) Whitehead and Elder Earl (Laverne)
4Whitehead; his aunts, Elma McKinney and Archie Russell; several
5nieces and nephews; and special friends Warren and Mert
6Johnson, Curtis and Kathy Morris, O'Niel Swanson, and his
7Shiloh Baptist Church and Masonic family; therefore, be it
 
8    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL
9ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
10his family and friends, the passing of Robert C. Whitehead Jr.;
11and be it further
 
12    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
13presented to the family of Robert C. Whitehead Jr. as a symbol
14of our sincere sympathy.