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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| learned with regret of the death of the Reverend Dr. Jesse Lee |
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| Wiggins of Bethalto on Sunday, December 26, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Reverend Wiggins was born on October 10, 1940, in |
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| Augusta, Georgia, to Lester Wallace and Claudia Mae (Shaffer) |
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| Wiggins; he married Rachel Lee Corley on May 16, 1959, in |
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| Augusta; and
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| WHEREAS, Reverend Wiggins followed his mother's dying wish |
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| that her son be a Pentecostal preacher; his first sermon was at |
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| age 13, which began a career consisting of 12 churches, more |
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| than 5,000 sermons, and more than 8,700 converts; he had been |
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| the pastor at Bethalto Church of God from 1974 to 1982 and from |
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| 1991 until 2004; he was a member of numerous State and |
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| international boards through Church of God Ministries, with |
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| headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee, including the State |
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| council, the Church of God Editorial and Publications Board, |
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| and the Bethalto Area Ministerial Alliance; he also wrote five |
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| books and many articles and booklets; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Reverend Dr. Jesse Lee Wiggins has |
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| been deeply felt by his entire congregation and everyone whose |
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| life he touched, but especially by his wife, Rachel; his |
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| daughter and her husband, Michelle and Duane Rose; his son and |
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| his wife, Joseph and Pamela Wiggins; his grandchildren, Jessica |
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| Rose, Kyle Wiggins, Tyler Wiggins, Heather Rose, and Michael |
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| Wiggins; his sister and her husband, Janice Paulette and Hugh |
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| Wendell Thomason; his brothers and their wives, Lester Ranny |
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| and Connie Wiggins and Lloyd Fredrick and JoAnna Wiggins; his |
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| stepbrother and his wife, Charles Thurston and Shirly Weathers; |
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| and his brothers and sisters-in-law, the Rev. H.K. McKnight and |
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| Margaret McKnight, Jean and Grady Rhoades, and J.T. Corley; he |
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| was preceded in death by his father, Lester Wallace Wiggins, |