Full Text of SR0973 95th General Assembly
SR0973 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of Mattie Hines, who passed away on January | 4 |
| 2, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born on June 3, 1917 in Owensboro, | 6 |
| Kentucky to Lula Mae and Willie Palmer; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a graduate of Western High School in | 8 |
| Owensboro, Kentucky; she later attended Kentucky State College | 9 |
| where she met and married William Atwood; she later married | 10 |
| Isaac Hines; she moved to Chicago in 1936 and worked at Jones | 11 |
| and Jones Drug Store for many years; and
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| WHEREAS, She was loved by all who met her; she found beauty | 13 |
| and goodness in everyone and had a positive outlook on life; | 14 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her parents; her | 16 |
| husband, Isaac; her sisters, Irene Koker, Catherine Palmer, | 17 |
| Ruth Helen Palmer, Georgella Williams, and Jamesetta Spencer; | 18 |
| and her brothers, Alfred Palmer and John Palmer; and
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| WHEREAS, Mattie Hines is survived by her daughter, | 20 |
| Gwendolyn (Atwood) Butler; her grandchildren, Valerie (Don |
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| Newbern) Butler-Newbern and Richard Eugene (Robin) Butler III; | 2 |
| her great-grandchildren, Tiffany Gwen Newbern, Brent Newbern, | 3 |
| Richard Eugene Butler IV, Rena Butler, Raiven Butler, and | 4 |
| Randyll Butler; her brother, Clay Palmer; her nephew, Tashonn | 5 |
| Antinori; her extended family, Lee Sewell, Ida "Pres" Preston, | 6 |
| the Bonds, and Barbara (Doll) Newbern; and her special friends | 7 |
| that were as close as family; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 9 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 10 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Mattie Hines; and be it | 11 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 |
| presented to the family of Mattie Hines as a symbol of our | 14 |
| sincere sympathy.
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