Full Text of HR1513 94th General Assembly
HR1513 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to honor milestones in the lives of | 4 |
| citizens of the State of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, It has come to our attention that Mrs. Willie | 6 |
| Cottingim will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 27, | 7 |
| 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Willie Cottingim was born on December 27, 1906 in | 9 |
| Denton, Texas; her parents were Rufus and Nellie Bly Shaw Nipp; | 10 |
| she lived in Texas until she was almost 12 years old when her | 11 |
| father was transferred to Parsons, Kansas with the KATY | 12 |
| Railroad; and
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| WHEREAS, She graduated from Parsons High School in 1925; | 14 |
| following graduation, she attended the Homer Conservatory of | 15 |
| Music in Kansas City, taking classes for five years; during | 16 |
| this time, she also worked part-time for the KATY Railroad; she | 17 |
| was a very talented vocal musician and, at the age of 19, | 18 |
| became the choir director for the First Baptist Church of | 19 |
| Parsons, Kansas; and
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| WHEREAS, In the late 1920's, Willie met and began to date | 21 |
| Hilmer Cottingim; they were married in St. Louis in December of | 22 |
| 1935; in 1938, Hilmer got a job with Texaco Pipeline Company in | 23 |
| Wood River, Illinois; they moved to Salem in 1939; she became | 24 |
| the choir director for the First Baptist Church in 1940, and | 25 |
| she directed multiple choirs there until her retirement some 25 | 26 |
| years later; and
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| WHEREAS, She taught music in the consolidated schools | 28 |
| (Shanafelt, Raccoon, Kell, & Iuka), then, in 1952 or 1953, she | 29 |
| went to work for Jiffy Manufacturing in Salem, and worked until | 30 |
| her retirement in 1971; she and her husband were very involved |
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| in Senior Citizens and community work during the 1970's and | 2 |
| 1980's; her husband died in June of 1992; Willie continues to | 3 |
| live independently at Bob White Village; she still attends | 4 |
| church every Sunday and says "I am not in bad shape for the | 5 |
| shape I am in."; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 7 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 8 |
| we congratulate Mrs. Willie Cottingim on the occasion of her | 9 |
| 100th birthday; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 |
| presented to Mrs. Willie Cottingim on her 100th birthday.
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