Full Text of SR1006 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Gollie Mae (nee Mobley) Rodgers of | 4 | | Chicago, who passed away on March 15, 2014; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers was born in Council, Arkansas on | 6 | | August 26, 1946 to Clinton, Sr. and Beatrice (nee Floyd) | 7 | | Mobley; she graduated from Anna Strong High School in Marianna, | 8 | | Arkansas in 1966 and attended Prairie State College in Chicago | 9 | | Heights; she married Claymon Rodgers on September 26, 1966 in | 10 | | Chicago; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers worked for Trine Stone Cleaners in | 12 | | Chicago Heights, Four Seasons Nursing Home in Hazel Crest, and | 13 | | ITW Impro in Monkena, where she retired after over 33 years of | 14 | | service; she also worked for the City of Chicago Heights Park | 15 | | District; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers enjoyed traveling in the United | 17 | | States and abroad; she also enjoyed spending time with her | 18 | | family and worked for many years on behalf of the Mobley Family | 19 | | Reunion, serving as secretary; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers was a member of Calvary Baptist | 21 | | Church in Chicago Heights from 1973 to 2000, where she served |
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| 1 | | as Sunday school teacher, choir member, and in the women's | 2 | | missionary department; from 2000 to 2014, she was a member of | 3 | | the First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Ford Heights, | 4 | | where she served as a member of the treasury board, choir | 5 | | member, member of the pastoral care committee, and member of | 6 | | the feeding ministry; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers was preceded in death by her | 8 | | parents; her daughter, Wanna Joyce; and by her husband of 43 | 9 | | years, Claymon; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Gollie Rodgers is survived by her daughters, Wanda | 11 | | and Donna; her grandson, Michael E. Hunter; her granddaughters, | 12 | | Destiny J. and Ericka C. Hunter; her sister, Mary H. (Henry | 13 | | Jr.) Mobley Thompson; her brother, Clinton Mobley, Jr.; her | 14 | | in-laws, Bobby Rodgers and Katherine Edmond; a host of nieces, | 15 | | nephews, and cousins; and her First Union Baptist Church family | 16 | | and her "son", Pastor Dr. Robert M. Foster; therefore, be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | 18 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 19 | | Gollie Mae Rodgers, and extend our sincere condolences to her | 20 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 21 | | further
| 22 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to the family of Gollie Rodgers as an expression of | 2 | | our deepest sympathy.
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