Full Text of SR2144 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Equellia Nancy Woods, who passed away on | 4 | | July 26, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods was born on April 21, 1918 in | 6 | | Newnan, Georgia; her parents were Paul and Victoria Powell; in | 7 | | her early teenage years, she left school to help support her | 8 | | family doing domestic work in and around Anniston, Alabama; she | 9 | | returned to school in 1977 to earn her General Education | 10 | | Diploma; she married Henry Woods on February 6, 1942; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods and her husband, Henry, moved to | 12 | | Chicago's Bronzeville area during the Great Migration of the | 13 | | late 1940s; they became members of St. John Baptist Church; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, After working at numerous jobs that were | 15 | | recommended by friends, Equellia Woods graduated from the | 16 | | National Institute of Nursing in Chicago on June 12, 1949; she | 17 | | began her nursing career at Providence Hospital in Chicago and | 18 | | began to provide private nursing services to a group of elite | 19 | | clients; she cared for many lawyers, business entrepreneurs, | 20 | | and judges; in the late 1950s, she was hired to care for | 21 | | philanthropist Edith B. Wells, who eventually became more than | 22 | | just a client as she provided lawyers to assist Equellia and |
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| 1 | | her husband with the purchase of their home in 1959; after | 2 | | Edith B. Wells passed away in 1981, she continued to assist | 3 | | clients until her retirement in 1986; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods was preceded in death by her | 5 | | husband, Henry Woods, and her siblings, Charles Powell, Ruby | 6 | | Woods, George Powell, Elnora Ross, Mattie Toney, and Willie | 7 | | Powell; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Equellia Woods is survived by her sisters, Lola | 9 | | Abbney, Francella Boyd, and Julia Johnson; her children, Paula | 10 | | Scott, Edward (Tammie) Boyd, and John (Patricia) Boyd; her | 11 | | grandchildren, Victoria, Cencere, Kenya, and Triniti Scott; | 12 | | her son-in-law, Kenny Scott; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, | 13 | | and neighbors; therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 15 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 16 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Equellia Nancy Woods; | 17 | | and be it further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to the family of Equellia Woods as an expression of | 20 | | our sympathy.
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