Full Text of HR0293 95th General Assembly
HR0293 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Claudia | 4 |
| Nash-Thomas of East St. Louis, who recently passed away; and
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| WHEREAS, Claudia Nash-Thomas was born in East St. Louis on | 6 |
| July 5, 1918; she attended school in School District 189 and | 7 |
| graduated from Lincoln School; she attended Southern Illinois | 8 |
| University after graduation; she taught in Sparta at Vernon | 9 |
| Grade School for three years, and then came to School District | 10 |
| 189, where she taught for three years; and
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| WHEREAS, Her sister, Frances, interested her in becoming a | 12 |
| mortician, and she enrolled in St. Louis College of Mortuary | 13 |
| Science; following graduation she was licensed in Illinois and | 14 |
| Missouri and worked with her father and sister in the business; | 15 |
| while working at the funeral home, she met Walter Lee Thomas | 16 |
| and they married on March 27, 1947; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a life member of St. Luke A.M.E. Church; | 18 |
| she served on the Board of Directors for the Comprehensive | 19 |
| Mental Health Center of St. Clair County from 1976 to 1991, as | 20 |
| a charter member of the East St. Louis Volunteers for Police | 21 |
| Safety, as a board member for the Children's Center, and she | 22 |
| was very active with the NAACP; she was the first Black |
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| President of the YWCA of St. Clair County, and served in many | 2 |
| other clubs and organizations as well; and
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| WHEREAS, Claudia Nash-Thomas received the Profile of | 4 |
| Providence Award for Metro East Women of Achievement in 1980; | 5 |
| she received a citation from the 82nd General Assembly of the | 6 |
| State of Illinois for Community Service; and many other honors | 7 |
| and awards; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Claudia Nash-Thomas was preceded in death by her | 9 |
| parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. (Emma C. Edwards) Nash; her | 10 |
| sister, M. Frances Nash Terrell; and her brother-in-law, Mr. | 11 |
| Edward Terrell; and
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| WHEREAS, Mrs. Claudia Nash-Thomas leaves to cherish her | 13 |
| memory her loving and devoted daughter, Claudia E. Thomas- | 14 |
| Nash; her loving sister, Fredericka J. Nash; her extended | 15 |
| family, Mrs. Priscilla Holliway, Mrs. Princetta Farries, and | 16 |
| Mrs. Michelle Buchannan; her very close friends, Mrs. Wastic | 17 |
| "Brownie" Brown, Mrs. Ossie Kersee, and Dr. Helen Hudlin; her | 18 |
| church family, club members, and her friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 21 |
| mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 22 |
| Claudia Nash-Thomas; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of Claudia Nash-Thomas as a symbol of | 3 |
| our sympathy.
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