Full Text of HR0095 102nd 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 Charlene | 4 | | Louise Willis, who passed away on September 16, 2020; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Charlene Willis was born to Ethel Louise and Mack | 6 | | Charles Moore; she graduated from East St. Louis Senior High | 7 | | School in 1963 and married Curtis Galloway Jr. the following | 8 | | year; she later married Pressgo Willis; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Charlene Willis worked for the United States | 10 | | Civil Service Commission in the Office of Personnel Management | 11 | | from 1969 until 1994; as a Black woman, she faced racism and | 12 | | discrimination throughout her career; after three years of | 13 | | retirement, she returned to the workforce as an employee of | 14 | | the private consulting firm Alsip, Incorporated; in 2000, she | 15 | | worked for the United States Census Bureau as a field | 16 | | operations supervisor for the 2000 census; in 2001, she began | 17 | | working as an adjudicator for the Illinois Department of | 18 | | Employment Security (IDES), where she was soon promoted to the | 19 | | role of supervisor; she was promoted again to the role of | 20 | | manager of the IDES East Saint Louis office; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Charlene Willis attended Rising Star Missionary | 22 | | Baptist Church in her formative years and joined the Junior |
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| 1 | | and Intermediate choirs and served on the program committee; | 2 | | after a ten year absence, she returned to Rising Star; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Charlene Willis was a mentor and a story teller; | 4 | | she was beautiful and smart and loved to read; she was a deeply | 5 | | spiritual person; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Charlene Willis was preceded in death by her | 7 | | parents, Ethel Louise and Mack Charles Moore; her husband, | 8 | | Pressgo Willis; her two brothers, Raymon Lee Moore and Bernard | 9 | | Charles Moore; and her sister, Brenda Kaye Moore; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Charlene Willis is survived by her son, Curtis | 11 | | Darryl; her daughter, Pamela Charlene; her grandchildren, | 12 | | Anthony Charles, Angela, Angelita, Shayla, Amber, Pamela | 13 | | (Muffin), Curtis Jr., and Tayanna; her 12 great- | 14 | | grandchildren; her sisters, Ethel Marie Samuel and Bernice | 15 | | Moore Crues; her nieces, Kimberly Marie Samuel and Chandra and | 16 | | Charice Moore; and her nephews, Michael (Valencia), Kelvin | 17 | | (Sabrina), and Darrin Curtis Samuel; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 19 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 20 | | we mourn the passing of Charlene Louise Willis and extend our | 21 | | sincere condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew | 22 | | and loved her; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
| 2 | | presented to the family of Charlene Willis as an expression of
| 3 | | our deepest sympathy.
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