Full Text of SR2248 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Mother Charlotte Elizabeth Eades, who | 4 | | passed away on September 15, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Mother Charlotte Eades was born on April 24, 1925; | 6 | | her parents were Bishop David Archie Reed and National | 7 | | Evangelist Carrie Lee Reed; she married Archie Lee Eades on | 8 | | January 16, 1949; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Mother Charlotte Eades began her career as an | 10 | | educator at Williams Grant High School in Covington, Kentucky | 11 | | and continued through Chicago Teachers College and Cortez | 12 | | Business College; she later served as Principal of the | 13 | | Tabernacle Christian Academy and as Dean of the Charles H. | 14 | | Mason/William Roberts Bible Institute of First Jurisdiction | 15 | | Illinois; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, As a member of Reed's Temple Church, Mother | 17 | | Charlotte Eades served on the Program Committee, Trustee Board, | 18 | | and Youth Motivation; she was the first Minister of Music of | 19 | | Reed's Temple Church, where she played the piano and organ; she | 20 | | also conducted revivals, taught Sunday school, worked with the | 21 | | Jail Ministry, and chauffeured elderly mothers at the church; | 22 | | and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Prior to her appointment as State Supervisor, | 2 | | Mother Charlotte Eades served as District Missionary to | 3 | | Superintendents Joe B. Reed, Samuel Russell, Ocie Booker, as | 4 | | well as Napoleon Harris, Sr., Assistant Chairman of the | 5 | | District Missionary Unit; she also served as Second Assistant | 6 | | State Supervisor to the late Mother Rosie Hines and First | 7 | | Assistant State Supervisor to the late Mother Carrie Cantrell; | 8 | | and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, In November of 1997, Mother Charlotte Eades was | 10 | | appointed Jurisdictional Supervisor of First Jurisdiction | 11 | | Illinois by Mother Willie Mae Rivers, General Supervisor of the | 12 | | Women's Department of the Church of God in Christ | 13 | | International; as Jurisdictional Supervisor, she provided | 14 | | leadership and training for women representing over 100 | 15 | | churches and several new innovations were organized under her | 16 | | tenure; she organized the Women's Institute Hour, a monthly | 17 | | training session for women of all ages; she was also the | 18 | | organizer and founder of the "New Generation", designed for the | 19 | | purpose of training young women from the ages of 20 to 45, the | 20 | | Annual Women's Workshop, and the Annual Women's Retreat, a | 21 | | weekend of spiritual and social elevation; and | 22 | | WHEREAS, Mother Charlotte Eades was appointed as a member | 23 | | of the Advisory Board of the National Women's Department and |
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| 1 | | Regional Supervisor of the Heartland Area, comprising the | 2 | | states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South | 3 | | Dakota, Minnesota, and Canada; she was also a National Adjutant | 4 | | Sister and served Presiding Bishop Louis Henry Ford, Bishop | 5 | | Shepard Little, and Bishop Ocie Booker; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Mother Charlotte Eades was preceded in death by | 7 | | her husband, Archie Lee; her son, Archie Lee, Jr.; her parents; | 8 | | and her siblings, Marion Rosemon, Bishop David Reed, Jr., James | 9 | | Lee, Milton, Joe B. Reed, and Mary Lillian Frances; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Mother Charlotte Eades is survived by her | 11 | | daughter, Marion D. Pearson; her daughter-in-law, Melissa; her | 12 | | grandchildren, Kristen, Gregory, Jr., Nikita, and Talaya; many | 13 | | nephews, nieces, other relatives, and friends; the Reed's | 14 | | Temple family; and the First Jurisdiction Illinois family; | 15 | | therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with her | 18 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Mother Charlotte | 19 | | Elizabeth Eades; and be it further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to the family of Mother Charlotte Eades as an | 22 | | expression of our sympathy.
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