Full Text of HR0242 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Sandra | 4 | | Gildersleeve-Freeman of Chicago, who passed away on March 3, | 5 | | 2011; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, She was born on July 28, 1956 to Albert and Zola | 7 | | Gildersleeve; she professed her faith in God and was a member | 8 | | of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church; she was a proud and loyal | 9 | | member of the Inspirational Choir; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, She attended Betsy Ross Elementary School and | 11 | | Englewood High School; in high school she was involved with the | 12 | | Army ROTC program and was named the 1972 ROTC Queen, received | 13 | | the Superior Cadet Award, and the 1974 Lieutenant Colonel Army | 14 | | ROTC Commander in Chief of Battalion; she attended Earlham | 15 | | College in Richmond, Indiana with a four-year Pullman Academic | 16 | | Scholarship; while in college, she studied abroad in Rodez, | 17 | | France; she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double | 18 | | major in Sociology/Anthropology and a minor in | 19 | | African-American studies; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, She later received a Master's degree in | 21 | | Corrections and Criminal Justice and worked towards her Ph.D. | 22 | | at Loyola University and DePaul University in the areas of |
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| 1 | | Social Work and Sociology; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, She met and later married her true love, Larry | 3 | | "Dobbie" Freeman; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, She was employed at Chicago State University in | 5 | | the Financial Aid Department; she was later promoted to the | 6 | | Military Science Department; her true passion was writing and | 7 | | poetry; she was the founder of Kenyatta Publications and is | 8 | | remembered as a poet, writer, educator, and songwriter; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, She was a member of the Academy of American Poets, | 10 | | the African-American Publishing Association, the International | 11 | | Platform Association, the International Society of Poets, the | 12 | | International Black Writers Conference, and the Women in | 13 | | Literature Networking Audience; she received many awards, | 14 | | including the Silver Poet Award, the Poet of Merit award, the | 15 | | Golden Poet Award, and others; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, She was preceded in death by her parents; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Sandra Gildersleeve-Freeman is survived by her | 18 | | husband, Larry; her children, Lawrence and Zola; her | 19 | | mother-in-law, Eula (Isaac) Spann; her brothers, Winfred | 20 | | (Michelle) Boyd and Albert (Barbara) Gildersleeve; her | 21 | | sisters, Shirley (Robert) Harris and Beverly Catherine; her |
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| 1 | | brothers-in-law, Melvin Freeman and Campanella (Queen) | 2 | | Freeman; her sisters-in-law, Angela Carter, Shirley (Wendell) | 3 | | Sanders, Catherine (Bennett) Hall, and Anita Freeman; her | 4 | | special nephew, Michael Bland; her special nieces, LaTanya | 5 | | Burton, Dietrich Graham, and NaTasha Harris; as well as a host | 6 | | of other nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends; therefore, be | 7 | | it
| 8 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 10 | | we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 11 | | Sandra Gildersleeve-Freeman; and be it further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 | | presented to the family of Sandra Gildersleeve-Freeman as a | 14 | | symbol of our sincere sympathy.
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