Full Text of SR0119 95th General Assembly
SR0119 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 Mozell Shavers of Chicago, who passed | 4 |
| away on March 20, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Mozell Shavers was born on September 10, 1937 in | 6 |
| Montgomery, Alabama; her parents were Luevenia and Ralph | 7 |
| Shavers Sr.; and
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| WHEREAS, She confessed her hope in Jesus Christ at Stone | 9 |
| Temple Missionary Baptist Church at an early age; she graduated | 10 |
| from Richard T. Crane High School and received her Bachelor's | 11 |
| degree in education from Northeastern College; and
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| WHEREAS, Mozell Shavers worked for the Chicago Public | 13 |
| Schools for 40 years; she served as a union steward for many | 14 |
| schools and on various union committees, as well as the local | 15 |
| school council; she retired from Oscar DePriest Elementary | 16 |
| School in 2003; and she also served as an election judge for | 17 |
| many years; and
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| WHEREAS, Mozell Shavers was known as the Queen of pound | 19 |
| cakes and for her cooking; she cooked for schools, family | 20 |
| functions, and her friends; the staff of Christopher and Mary | 21 |
| Lyons schools loved her turkey and dressing; she did holiday |
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| cakes, pies, dressing, and all the trimmings for holiday | 2 |
| orders; she would tell her niece, Venus, that she would someday | 3 |
| carry on the torch in cooking; and
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| WHEREAS, Mozell Shavers was preceded in death by her | 5 |
| parents, Ralph Shavers Sr. and Luevenia Shavers; her brothers, | 6 |
| Johnny, Lamont, and Ralph Shavers, Jr.; and her daughter, | 7 |
| Valerie Shavers; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Mozell Shavers leaves to celebrate her life: her | 9 |
| children, Daryl Shavers (Lucy), Valeda Shavers, and Charnell | 10 |
| Sanders (Edward); her sisters, Katie Lindsey (Arthur), Elnora | 11 |
| Haralson (James), Velma Shavers (Robert), and Delores Shavers; | 12 |
| her brothers, Vernon Shavers (Alexandria), and Mark Shavers | 13 |
| (Yvonne); her grandchildren, Daryl Jr., James, Chantell, | 14 |
| Melanie, Brittany, Katrina, Chanell, Jerome, Scharell, Daryl | 15 |
| III, Edward Jr., William, and Jaylin; her four | 16 |
| great-grandchildren; her many nieces, nephews, cousins, and | 17 |
| friends; her friend, Betty Allen Greene, who encouraged her to | 18 |
| become a teacher; her friends, Bobby Jean Portis and Janet | 19 |
| Anderson; and her special daughter, Ethel Collier; therefore, | 20 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 22 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 23 |
| her family and friends, the passing of Mozell Shavers; and be |
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| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to the family of Mozell Shavers as a symbol of our | 4 |
| sympathy.
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