Full Text of HR0040 98th 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 Dianne | 4 | | Ruth Jones, who passed away on December 31, 2012; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dianne Jones was born on March 24, 1928 and was | 6 | | raised in New York City; in 1949, she came to Chicago and | 7 | | attended Roosevelt University; she married Linzey D. Jones Sr. | 8 | | in 1950; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Dianne Jones and her husband became actively | 10 | | involved in the growing civil rights movement in the 1950s and | 11 | | 1960s; she was actively involved with the NAACP in Chicago and | 12 | | the south suburbs and helped to organize two NAACP chapters; | 13 | | she also led efforts to desegregate Chicago's Rainbow Beach and | 14 | | participated in the 1963 March on Washington, D.C.; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Dianne Jones began her career as an educator in | 16 | | the 1950s, teaching primarily in West Harvey School District | 17 | | No. 147; in 1968, she led efforts to establish one of the first | 18 | | teacher unions in the State of Illinois, West Harvey Federation | 19 | | of Teachers Local 1698; she served as President of Local 1698 | 20 | | from 1972 to 1978; she also served as an Illinois Federation of | 21 | | Teachers (IFT) Vice-President for 8 years and chairperson of | 22 | | the Illinois Right-to-Read Advisory Council; after her |
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| 1 | | retirement from teaching in 1979, she took on a larger role in | 2 | | serving the interests of educators and children as an IFT Field | 3 | | Service Director with IFT Local 604 until 1991; in that | 4 | | capacity, she was responsible for organizing and bargaining for | 5 | | teachers and staff in Sauk Village, Peotone, Channahon, | 6 | | Wilmington, Homer, Joliet, Tinley Park, Steger, and many other | 7 | | communities; she also worked on teacher training and school | 8 | | reform initiatives of the IFT until her retirement from the IFT | 9 | | in 1993; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Dianne Jones was preceded in death by her beloved | 11 | | husband of 55 years, Linzey D. Jones Sr.; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Dianne Jones was the loving mother of Leslie Ann | 13 | | Jones (Tom Johnson) and Judge Linzey D. Jones, Jr. (Gloria) and | 14 | | the grandmother to Linzey George Jones and Ben, Charlie, and | 15 | | Jake Johnson; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 | | we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 19 | | Dianne Ruth Jones; and be it further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to the family of Dianne Jones as an expression of our | 22 | | sympathy.
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