Full Text of HR0351 98th 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 Beatrice | 4 | | Taylor of Rockford, who passed away on May 6, 2013; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Beatrice Taylor was born on April 19, 1905, in the | 6 | | Gypsum Hills of Blain County, Oklahoma; her parents were Lottie | 7 | | and Clem Smith; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Beatrice Taylor graduated from high school in | 9 | | Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and then moved to Wichita, Kansas; in | 10 | | 1923, she married Ira Anderson and had 3 daughters, Loretta, | 11 | | Yvonne, and Lavonne; shortly after the passing of her husband | 12 | | Ira, when her children were teenagers, she moved to Rockford in | 13 | | the 1940s to be closer to her mother; in Rockford, she married | 14 | | Thomas Jarvis Taylor and worked as their personal cook for the | 15 | | Todd family, who owned the Rockford Register Star, as well as | 16 | | the personal cook for Maurice McDonald, one of the founding | 17 | | brothers of McDonald's; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Beatrice Taylor was a member of the Pilgrim | 19 | | Baptist Church; she was also the founder of "The Afternoon Art | 20 | | Club", a women's group that met weekly to make quilts, knit, | 21 | | and crochet, which they sold or donated to help the less | 22 | | fortunate in the Rockford area; she was an active member of the |
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| 1 | | club for more than 25 years; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Beatrice Taylor was interested in politics for | 3 | | many years; her most memorable experience was voting for Barack | 4 | | Obama for President; as an honored guest at Illinois State | 5 | | Representative Chuck Jefferson's annual Mothers' Day Luncheon, | 6 | | she met then-Senator Barack Obama and was later invited to the | 7 | | White House once he took office; she also met Oprah Winfrey at | 8 | | age 106 and was invited to speak to the audience during the | 9 | | pre-show; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Beatrice Taylor was designated as the | 11 | | African-American Woman of the Year by Rockford's Ethnic | 12 | | Heritage Museum; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 | | we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 16 | | Beatrice Taylor; and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Beatrice Taylor as an expression of | 19 | | our sympathy.
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