Full Text of SR0485 95th General Assembly
SR0485 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Bernice Caldwell of Alton, who passed | 4 |
| away on December 13, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Bernice Caldwell was born on July 22, 1929 in | 6 |
| Alton; her parents were Jason and Nancy (Kimbrough) Holloway; | 7 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, Bernice Caldwell was a graduate of Alton High | 9 |
| School; and
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| WHEREAS, Bernice Caldwell was employed with Millers Mutual | 11 |
| Insurance Co. and Alton School District 11, where she served as | 12 |
| a bus monitor; and
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| WHEREAS, Bernice Caldwell was a member of the Morning Star | 14 |
| Baptist Church, where she served as Mother of the Church, | 15 |
| condolence clerk, and as chairperson of Women's Day; she served | 16 |
| as a board member of the Alton Branch of the NAACP; she also | 17 |
| served as the Resident Commissioner of the Alton Housing | 18 |
| Authority; and
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| WHEREAS, Bernice Caldwell was preceded in death by her | 20 |
| parents, Jason and Nancy; her husband, Henry Caldwell; John |
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| Smith; her granddaughter, Tabitha Mike; her grandson, DaRon | 2 |
| Hearn; her three great-grandsons; her brothers, Robert | 3 |
| Holloway and John Holloway; and her sister, Willia Mae Watson; | 4 |
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| WHEREAS, Bernice Caldwell is survived by her sons, Ronald | 6 |
| Caldwell (Janice), Henry Caldwell, John Caldwell (Susan), | 7 |
| Derrick Smith, and Larry Smith; her daughters, Beverly Kaiser, | 8 |
| Debra Bradley, Patricia Mack (Cedric), Marsha K. Smith, and | 9 |
| Felicia Caldwell; her 35 grandchildren and 48 | 10 |
| great-grandchildren; her sisters, Nancy Harris (John), | 11 |
| Mercedes Frazier, and Joyce Goings; her brothers, Rudolph | 12 |
| Holloway, James Holloway (Betty), and Alvin Holloway; her best | 13 |
| friend of 70 years, Joann Searles, and her special friend, Ann | 14 |
| Scott-Jordon; and her many nieces, nephews, cousins, and | 15 |
| friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 17 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 18 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Bernice Caldwell; and be | 19 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 |
| presented to the family of Bernice Caldwell as an expression of | 22 |
| our sympathy.
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