Full Text of SR0134 095th General Assembly
SR0134 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to express | 3 |
| their sincere condolences to the family and friends of
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| Rosa Hooker, who passed away on March 29, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker was born on September 4, 1916 | 6 |
| in Ebenezer, Mississippi; her parents were Samuel and Carrie | 7 |
| Pickens Whorton; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker accepted Christ as her Savior | 9 |
| in 1928 at Franklin Church of God in Christ in Lexington, | 10 |
| Mississippi; she became a member in the St. John Church of God | 11 |
| in Christ in 1930, where she and her father assisted in the | 12 |
| church's construction; she married Arthur Nathaniel Hooker in | 13 |
| 1933 and 11 children were born to this union; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker moved to Chicago with her | 15 |
| family in 1941; she joined the Lake Street Church of God in | 16 |
| Christ, where she was a Sunday School teacher and the Young | 17 |
| Women's Christian Council founder and president; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1952, the family moved southwest and united | 19 |
| with Carol Devine Temple Church of God in Christ, where Mother | 20 |
| Rosa Hooker served as Sunday school teacher, deaconess, and | 21 |
| Sunshine Band leader; later she joined Inspirational |
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| Deliverance Center Church of God in Christ; and | 2 |
| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker returned to Mississippi in | 3 |
| 1981, where she assisted in the construction and operation of | 4 |
| the St. Matthew Church of God in Christ in Lexington, | 5 |
| Mississippi; after her return to Illinois in 1993, she | 6 |
| continued her membership at the Inspirational Deliverance | 7 |
| Center Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where she served as | 8 |
| the building fund captain and Sunday School teacher; and
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| WHEREAS, Mother Rosa Hooker will be remembered by all her | 10 |
| knew and loved her, especially her children, Carrie Dee Coleman | 11 |
| (Charles), Lonnie (Mary), Everlena Taylor, Pastor Shirley | 12 |
| Hughes, John T. (Kim), Rosemary, and Shadrick; her sister, | 13 |
| Martha Mason; her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her | 14 |
| great-great grandchildren, her spiritual daughters, Margaret | 15 |
| Harris and Vernon Oliver Price, her nieces, nephews, cousins, | 16 |
| relatives, friends, and her church family; she was preceded in | 17 |
| death by her parents; her husband, Arthur Nathaniel Hooker; her | 18 |
| children, Arthur, Charles, Julius, and Jerry; her siblings, | 19 |
| William, Alonzo, Rayfield, Garfield, Robert, Samuel Dale, | 20 |
| Leanna, Everlena, Lennie, and Earner; therefore, 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 Mother Rosa Hooker; and |
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| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to the family of Mother Rosa Hooker as an expression | 4 |
| of our sympathy.
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