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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to |
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| learn of the death of
Queen T. Holman; and
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| WHEREAS, Queen Holman was born on September 6, 1929, in |
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| Jonestown, Mississippi; her parents were Columbus and Della |
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| Harris; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1935, Queen Holman and her family moved to |
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| Memphis, Tennessee; she acknowledged Christ at an early age and |
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| was baptized by the late Pastor James E. Turner at the St. Luke |
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| M.B. Church in Memphis; she attended St. Luke's until her |
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| parents relocated their family to Chicago in 1946; she then |
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| moved on to Newark, New York, where she completed her last year |
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| of high school while living with her sister, Iona Paul; she |
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| later returned to Chicago, where she married her high school |
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| sweetheart, Cary A. Holman, Sr.; and
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| WHEREAS, Queen Holman was a founding member of the New |
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| Mount Zion M.B. Church, which was pastored by her stepfather, |
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| the late Rev. William Hudson; she served as a soloist in the |
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| church's Gospel Choir, church secretary of finance, and leader |
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| of the church's GED and community programs; she later moved |
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| with her husband to South Holland, where she joined the St. |
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| Mark Baptist Church Cathedral under the leadership of the late |
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| Bishop Willie Jordan; and
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| WHEREAS, Queen Holman attended the Kennedy King School of |
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| Nursing, where she earned her RN degree after completing the |
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| State Board with high scores; she was employed with numerous |
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| medical facilities, including St. Luke's Rush Presbyterian |
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| Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, the Chicago Board of Health, |
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| St. Bernard's Hospital, Cermak, the Post Office Infirmary, and |
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| numerous private cases and geriatric institutions; and
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| WHEREAS, Queen Holman was preceded in death by her parents; |
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| her husband; her brothers, Eddie, Shallie, Albert, and Isaiah; |
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| and her sisters, Helen, Iona, and Bertha Mae; and
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| WHEREAS, Queen Holman is survived by her daughters, Brenda |
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| and Janice (Sidney); her sons, Edgar, Sr. and Cary, Jr. |
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| (Wilma); her step-daughter, Phyllis; her grandchildren, Carl, |
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| Danielle (Maurice), Shanae, Tenesha (Andre), Edgar, Jr., |
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| Caressa, Anthony, Amber, Naija, and Janai; her |
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| great-grandchildren, Carlos, Diamonte, Zori, Maurice, Khloe, |
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| Adajanai, Clifton, and Ezra; her sister, Rev. Dr. Princilla |
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| Hudson-Gilliam; her sisters-in-law, Vera Harris, Ruth Hudson, |
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| and Dorothy Smith; her many nieces, nephews, and cousins; her |
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| special friends, Jean Augusta and Howard Goodman; her special |
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| cousin, Vandella Brooks; and her many other relatives and |
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| friends; therefore, be it
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