Full Text of HR0701 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Pearl Lucrecia McCoy, "Mama Pearl", was born in | 3 | | Lake Village, Arkansas on January 23, 1912; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, She received her lower and middle grade education | 5 | | in Lake Village, Arkansas, and attended Sipio Jones High School | 6 | | and Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, She was teaching other children by the age of 23; | 8 | | and | 9 | | WHEREAS, She married Fred Mason on August 23, 1933, and | 10 | | they were married 53 years; this union was blessed with 8 | 11 | | children, Freddie Mae, Ozell, Joyce, Carol, Perry, Veda, | 12 | | Cynthia, and Joni; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, She belonged to St. Matthews Parish, where her | 14 | | youngest 2 children attended grade school; she annually | 15 | | volunteered at the St. Matthews School fundraiser as well as | 16 | | St. Francis Cabrini Schools; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, She played Bingo weekly at St. Francis Cabrini | 18 | | where her second eldest child, Ozell, was school principal for | 19 | | many years; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Her relationship working with noted interior | 2 | | designers and producing exquisitely detailed productions of | 3 | | their designs garnered the attention of one of Chicago's | 4 | | leading newspapers; she was a production supervisor for P. J. | 5 | | Gould and Flexi Mat Corporations until her retirement at 65 | 6 | | years of age; at that time, she was the only Black female | 7 | | production supervisor in the pillow and bedding industry; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, In 2008, at age 96, she and her 92 year old | 9 | | brother, Isaac, volunteered at the Michigan City, Indiana, | 10 | | Barack Obama Campaign Headquarters; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | we congratulate Pearl McCoy on her 100th birthday and | 14 | | affectionately declare the last century the Century of Pearl | 15 | | Mason; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Pearl McCoy as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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