Full Text of SR0834 94th General Assembly
SR0834 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Viveca Lynne Howell Mayes | 4 |
| of Chicago, on June 17, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born on May 30, 1959, to Brenetta and | 6 |
| Jesse Howell; she grew up on Chicago's West Side, attending | 7 |
| Sumner and Byford Public Elementary Schools, and graduating | 8 |
| from Siena High School in 1977; and
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| WHEREAS, She found her calling in the education field, | 10 |
| obtaining her Baccalaureate degree in elementary education at | 11 |
| Northeastern Illinois University in 1981; she then pursued | 12 |
| graduate work in Speech and Language Pathology at Rush | 13 |
| University; after volunteering at Austin Developmental Center | 14 |
| and Leslie Lewis School, she began teaching in Chicago Public | 15 |
| Schools in 1983; she worked in several schools, including | 16 |
| Audubon School on Chicago's North Side, where she taught 4th | 17 |
| and 5th grades until the time of her passing; and
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| WHEREAS, Her life of service to her community extended far | 19 |
| outside of her employment; she was active in numerous | 20 |
| organizations including the Chicago Teachers' Union as a member | 21 |
| of its House of Delegates, Phi Delta Kappa, which awarded her | 22 |
| Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1996, Third World | 23 |
| Conference, Chicago Economic Development Corporation, and the | 24 |
| Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights; she received | 25 |
| recognition for voluntarism from the Chicago Black United Fund | 26 |
| and Pathfinders Prevention Education Fund; as a member of Third | 27 |
| Unitarian Church, she conducted a summer reading program for | 28 |
| youngsters in the Austin community for two years; and
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| WHEREAS, Her faith in Christ continued to grow throughout | 30 |
| her life; she was a member of St. Benedict Parish while her son | 31 |
| attended school there, and she also attended Faith Tabernacle |
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| Church and Harvest Christian Center; most recently she worked | 2 |
| with her husband to establish Harvest Worship Cathedral | 3 |
| International in Chicago's Rogers Park area; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Viveca Lynne Howell Mayes has been | 5 |
| deeply felt by many, especially her husband, Pastor Donald N. | 6 |
| Mayes, Jr.; her mother, Brenetta Howell Barrett; her sisters, | 7 |
| Dr. Cynthia T. Henderson (Prentiss J. Jackson) and Abliba | 8 |
| Howell; her brother, Kevin Howell; her sons, Juan R. Gibson II, | 9 |
| Jawaan Mayes, and Joshua Mayes; her daughter, LaDonna Young; | 10 |
| her grandchildren, sisters, brothers-in-law, aunts, uncles, | 11 |
| nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, co-workers, and hundreds of | 12 |
| children and their parents whose lives she touched; therefore, | 13 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 15 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 16 |
| Viveca Lynne Howell Mayes, and we extend our sincere | 17 |
| condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved | 18 |
| her; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 |
| presented to her family as an expression of our deepest | 21 |
| sympathy.
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