Full Text of HJR0049 94th General Assembly
HJ0049 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, State Senator Kwame Raoul, State Representative | 3 |
| Monique D. Davis and the members of the General Assembly were | 4 |
| deeply saddened to learn of the death of Alzata Pincham of | 5 |
| Chicago on April 9, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Pincham was born June 27, 1925, to Katherine | 7 |
| Cox Henry and James Frederick Henry in Louisville, Tennessee; | 8 |
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| WHEREAS, After graduating from Tennessee State University | 10 |
| in 1947, she taught elementary school in Lexington, | 11 |
| Mississippi; on August 31, 1948, she married R. Eugene Pincham; | 12 |
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| WHEREAS, She and her husband moved to Chicago in 1948, and | 14 |
| she continued teaching with the Chicago Board of Education | 15 |
| until 1959 while her husband was in law school; when he began | 16 |
| his career, she "retired" to a career of homemaker and mother; | 17 |
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Pincham was active in numerous community | 19 |
| organizations throughout her life; she was a member of the | 20 |
| Tennessee State University Vintagers 50-year alumni | 21 |
| association and the Chicago State University Taggers | 22 |
| Association, vice-president of the West Chesterfield Community | 23 |
| Association, president of the Gillespie Local School Council, | 24 |
| and former Sunday school teacher at Faith United Methodist | 25 |
| Church; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a 30-year breast cancer survivor and an | 27 |
| active member of Trinity United Church of Christ where she was | 28 |
| a charter-founding member and president of the Can-Cer-Vive | 29 |
| cancer survivors' ministry; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Alzata Pincham is felt by all who | 2 |
| knew and loved her, especially her husband of 57 years, retired | 3 |
| Illinois Appellate Court Justice R. Eugene Pincham; her | 4 |
| children, Robert, Andrea (Robert Benton), and James; her | 5 |
| sisters, Rowena Hodges (Robert) and Edith Butler (Wendell); her | 6 |
| grandchildren, Evan Eugene Pincham and Christina Pincham; and a | 7 |
| host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and lifelong friends; | 8 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 11 |
| SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that even as her death is mourned, we | 12 |
| give thanks for the blessing of Alzata Pincham's life and | 13 |
| extend our sincerest condolences to her family, friends, and | 14 |
| community; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our deepest | 17 |
| sympathy.
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