Full Text of SR0252 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of Waynona Brown of Champaign; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Waynona Brown was born to Wayne and Yetiva Morgan | 5 | | Newcom in Benton, Kansas on June 23, 1921; following public | 6 | | school in Haven and Pretty Prairie, Kansas, she attended | 7 | | Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg, Kansas; she | 8 | | graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Education with a major | 9 | | in mathematics and minors in commerce, English and speech; she | 10 | | subsequently attended the School of Social Service | 11 | | Administration at the University of Chicago in 1946 with a Red | 12 | | Cross scholarship; she earned a Master of Arts in Social Work | 13 | | from the University of Chicago in 1953; she married Richard M. | 14 | | Brown in 1962; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Waynona Brown first worked as a teacher at high | 16 | | schools in Haven, Planeview, and Pretty Praire, Kansas; she | 17 | | worked for the Chicago Chapter of the American Red Cross from | 18 | | 1947 to 1948 and the Kansas Children's Service League in | 19 | | Wichita and Coffeyville, Kansas from 1948 to 1953; in 1953, | 20 | | she moved to Champaign to become the supervisor of the | 21 | | Champaign office of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid | 22 | | Society where she remained until 1962; from 1976 until her | 23 | | retirement in 1984, she was the agency and institution |
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| 1 | | licensing representative for the Champaign region of the | 2 | | Illinois Department of Children and Family Services; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Waynona Brown was involved in a number of | 4 | | volunteer activities; prior to her marriage, she was active in | 5 | | the local chapter of the National Association of Social | 6 | | Workers, a board member of the United Community Council and of | 7 | | the Volunteer Bureau, and a member of the Children's and | 8 | | Unmarried Mothers committees;
between 1960 and 1990, she was a | 9 | | board member of Cunningham Children's Home in Urbana, where | 10 | | she also served for many years as chairman of the Personnel | 11 | | Committee; she volunteered at the Planned Parenthood | 12 | | Association of Champaign County from 1966 to 1967 and was a | 13 | | board member from 1986 to 1989; she was a member of the | 14 | | Children's Home and Aid Society Auxiliary from 1963 to 2003, | 15 | | served on the board of directors of the Child Care Association | 16 | | of Illinois from 1968 to 1974, served on the board of directors | 17 | | for the Children's Planning Consortium of Illinois during its | 18 | | organizational period from 1973 to 1974, and was chairwoman of | 19 | | the Champaign Area Public-Private Agency Planning Committee | 20 | | from 1974 to 1976; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Waynona Brown was preceded in death by her | 22 | | husband; her parents; her son, Peter; her brother; her two | 23 | | sisters; her two nieces; and her one nephew; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Waynona Brown is survived by two sons, Alan W. | 2 | | Brown and Stephen H. Brown; her daughter, Kathryn L. | 3 | | Blackwood; four grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; five | 4 | | great-great-grandchildren; and five nephews; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 6 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 7 | | Waynona Brown and extend our sincere condolences to her | 8 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 9 | | further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to the family of Waynona Brown as an expression of | 12 | | our deepest sympathy.
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